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- adjective Alternative form of
snot-nosed .
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Examples
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FERRIDAY, La. — Arthur Leonard Spencer says sure, he made some mistakes back when he was a "snot-nose kid," like joining the Ku Klux Klan.
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FERRIDAY, La. — Arthur Leonard Spencer says sure, he made some mistakes back when he was a "snot-nose kid," like joining the Ku Klux Klan.
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I'm sure that Edwin, Mee-Maw and Mike Foster are laughing up their sleeves at this snot-nose kid who was so insulting to them.
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And it may be that the traditional media have done us a favor by beating some of the smug snot-nose out of us.
Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives 2004
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It is usually full of snot-nose, lunatic ravings, usually ending in a bloodthirsty warhoop.
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Who wants to read about a snot-nose who doesn't know how to take chances in anything but quadratic equations?
Reader reviews of The Gospel According To Larry by Janet Tashjian. 2001
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The chubby one took off then, while the tall, skinny one tugged at the littlest one, the snot-nose one, who seemed frozen not so much in fear as in open-mouthed stupidity.
Butchers Hill Lippman, Laura 1998
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Makepeace Smith and his wife Gertie and their three snot-nose children planning devilment when they weren't puking or piddling -- Peggy saw Makepeace's pleasure in the shaping of iron, his loathing for his own children, his disappointment as his wife changed from a fascinating unattainable vision of beauty into a stringy-haired hag who screamed at the children first and then came to use the same voice to scream at Makepeace.
Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989
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"Eata, you little snot-nose, I thought I'd never see you again!"
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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I haven't any yen to look at myself when I was a snot-nose; it's the era that interests me.
Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973
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