Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Vulgar Nasal mucus; phlegm.
- n. Slang Vulgar A person regarded as annoying, arrogant, or impertinent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nasal mucus.
- n. A low, mean fellow; a sneak; a snivel: used as a vague term of reproach.
- n. The snuff of a candle.
- To free from snot; blow or wipe (the nose).
- n. The first part of the shedding stage, in the soft crab industry.
Wiktionary
- n. informal, uncountable Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
- n. slang, countable Contemptible child.
- v. transitive To blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Low Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose.
- n. Low A mean, insignificant fellow.
- v. To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.
WordNet 3.0
- n. nasal mucus
- n. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
Etymologies
- From Old English gesnot, from the same base as snout. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English gesnot. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“They were all telling me that this -- this animal can -- when it dries up, goes into a borough build him self in what they call a snot bubble.”
“But if in English "snot" is associated with disdain, in Russian сопли are associated with infantile behavior.”
“The pettiest thing I hate: children are little germ monsters and the snot is neverending and I hate it.”
10 Things I Hate About Motherhood (And One That I Love) - Her Bad Mother
“On a side note to Hugh Jackman …. any future attempts by your people that have you starring in roles where you cry so much snot is coming out your nose should be probably ignored.”
“Wiping snot is the bane of my existence all winter.”
“Why shoot something that kicks the ever-lovin 'snot out of you when a 6. 5x55, 7x57, 280 will effectively slay 90% of the game animals in North America?”
“I know, upside down with a head full of snot is not the most appealing thing.”
“And its impossible to sneeze with your eyes open … I dont really care, all I care about is not gettin snot everywhere. i'm a girl who is laughing Says:”
“| Reply fire burns things away and meteor does damage to everything, snot is as usfull as the other stuff”
“If I wasn't so lazy I'd link the word snot to another entry.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snot’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Change one letter
Change one letter in the title of an existing book, and create an entirely new literary work. Add a one-sentence comment, describing the new work.
all the pretty ho..., the brothels kara..., caesar's garlic wars, the unbearable ti..., a heartbreaking w..., the good marrow, the right stiff, lady windermere's..., infinite pest, the cremains of t..., eyes on the pride, the spoils of boy... and 747 more...
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snose words
Words that relate to the nose, particularly those that begin with sn-
sniff, sneer, snub, sneeze, snarl, snort, snide, snout, snob, snooze, snot, snore and 11 more...
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Morbid Curiosity: Words You Should Be...
This has the potential to be the scariest list on Wordie.
merkin, meat, shingles, vomit, goiter, incision, abattoir, erysipelas, ebola, maggot, blood, episiotomy and 51 more...
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The Nose Knows
Being Nosy.
nosethril, nostril, nebby, nasal, rhinoplasty, pug, button, Roman, turned-up, Pinocchio, Cyrano de Bergerac, Gonzo and 54 more...
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Found in keyboard
nail clippings, rice, paperclip fragment, biscuit crumbs, breadcrumbs, meat, earwax, snot, tears, staple, hair, eraser crumbles and 12 more...
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Why We Curse: WTF?
This list collects the magnificent collection of vocabulary of the article "What the F***? Why We Curse," by Steven Pinker, in The New Republic (Oct. 2007). I think I'm more impressed with the coll...
curse, language, earthy, ancient, unthinkable, thinkable, emotional, rhyme, meter, alliteration, pleasure, metaphor and 196 more...
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Name-Calling for Fun and Profit
I figured out the thing all these terms have in common, besides that they can be used as insults. They all crack me up.
drip, yahoo, dweeb, nimrod, wanker, nincompoop, weasel, skank, fussbudget, dink, twit, guttersnipe and 125 more...
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grossness
anything gross can be here
merdivorous, vomit, vomitus, pee, scybala, slime, grime, snot
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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Skip The Light Fontastic
Fonts whose names are wacky, powerful, intriguing, whimsical, exotic and so on.
buttzilla, consolas, trebuchet, chanticleer, earthpig, dwarves, ciao, ghost town, goodfish, i still know, gorilla milkshake, immoral and 212 more...
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
Tweets
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bilby Australian slang: to punch in the face. Uhh, probably someone else, not yourself. Aug 30, 2012
sionnach Also (in the 'change one letter' thread). Nobel Prize winner's account of respiratory infections in Istanbul Jan 31, 2008
sionnach Nasal mucus. Middle English and Anglo-Saxon, it corresponds to the Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snot; the Old Frisian and Middle Low German "snotte;" Middle Dutch "snut"; and Middle High German "snuz". Oct 27, 2007