snot
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
snot
- (informal, uncountable) Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
- (slang, countable) A contemptible child.
- 2010, Ernest L. Rhodes, A Coal Miner's Family at Mooseheart (page 19)
- With no warning a gang of little snots — none larger or older than I was — threw me to the ground, pulled my knickers below my knees — without any explanation, and allowed me to get up.
- 2010, Ernest L. Rhodes, A Coal Miner's Family at Mooseheart (page 19)
- (slang, obsolete) A mean fellow.
- booger qual US (but note this noun is countable)
- French: morve, roupie
- German: Rotz, Rotze, Schnodder, Nasenschleim from nose only
- Italian: caccola, moccio, moccolo
- Portuguese: muco, ranho (liquid), tatu (solid)
- Russian: сопля́
- Spanish: moco
- French: morveux
- German: Rotznase
- Italian: monello, moccioso, peste
- Portuguese: pivete
- Russian: сопля́к
- Spanish: mocoso
snot (snots, present participle snotting; past and past participle snotted)
- (ambitransitive) To blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).
- (intransitive) To sniff or snivel; to produce snot, to have a runny nose.
- 2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury 2015, p. 148:
- I was snotting all into my mouth and having to eat it, silently shuddering.
- 2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury 2015, p. 148:
- French: moucher
- Russian: сморкаться
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