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snotty

snotty

5 6.6
Covered with wet mucus from the nose
  • adjective
  • /ˈsnɑti/
translation icon : con mocos
  • Stand up straight and wipe your snotty little nose.
  • snotty-nosed
  • snotty nose
  • snotty kids

It is a gooey, snotty thing out of a shell.

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Examples

  • You think she wanna see your snotty-nosed face?

    Fiction book (2000)
  • "I woke up with a sore throat, and you've been snotty and disgusting all week," Gretchen said.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • You still look like a snotty little child.

  • I think what did it first was you saying, "Look at how cute she is, that little one with the snotty nose."

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Some snotty-nosed young fella with a mouth organ.

  • Or the mother with droopy breasts and snotty-nosed kids.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • They wipe their snotty noses, then pet me with those same tiny hands.

  • There was also a little, ancient grandmother who prepared the vegetables and wiped the kids' snotty noses.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • You little snotty-nosed runts.

  • The child's face was sticky and snotty after playing in the park.

Synonyms

snot-nosed
vssnotty
  • Informal
1 8.6

Having a runny nose with snot on the face

refers to being covered with nasal discharge rather than just having symptoms
snuffly
vssnotty
6.1

Having a blocked or runny nose and making soft sniffing sounds

refers to being covered with nasal discharge rather than merely having congestion

Antonyms

1.0

Free from dirt or harmful things

144 1.0

Clean and tidy with things in order

Compounds

snotty-nosed
  • Offensive
1 8.2

A person, often a child, who is rude and acts as if better than others

How Messy

crusted
1 4.2
snotty
5 6.6
damp
113 1.0
clean
1.0

Surface Forms

snotty positive
snottier comparative
snottiest superlative

Morphology

snotty = snot (transparent) = snot + y

Clear adjectival formation from the noun 'snot' with '-y' indicating 'covered with or characterized by', so the literal sense is directly derivable.

Etymology

Snotty comes from the common word snot, which means 'the wet stuff from your nose', so it originally described something 'full of snot' or dirty around the nose.