snot
UK/snɒt/US/snɑt/
snot noun: mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
Noun
snot (countable and uncountable, plural snots)
- Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
- Once, I remember, the little fair-haired boy had a choking fit at dinner, and a stream of snot ran out of his nose on to his plate in a way horrible to see.c. 1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
- Semen.
- A contemptible child.
- 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
- A mean fellow.
- The flamed out wick of a candle.
- Synonyms:
- snuff
Verb
snot (third-person singular simple present snots, present participle snotting, simple past and past participle snotted)
snot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
snot in Hindi
- mucus
- रेंट rẽṭ, पोंटा põṭā
snot in Tamil
- மூக்கொழுகல்
snot in Marathi
- mucus
- शेंबूड śembūḍ
snot in Urdu
- کمینہ, ناک
More languagesFewer languages
- snot in Malayalam
- മൂക്കിള mūkkiḷa, മൂക്കട്ട mūkkaṭṭa
- snot in Sanskrit
- खेट kheṭa
- snot in Arabic
- مُخَاط muḵāṭ, مُخَاط أَنْف muḵāṭ ʔanf
- snot in Malay
- hingus, air hidung
- snot in Indonesian
- ingus
- snot in Persian
- مف mof, ان دماغ an damâġ
- snot in Thai
- น้ำมูก nám môok
- snot in Vietnamese
- nước mũi
- snot in Myanmar
- နှပ် hnap
Examples of snot in a sentence
- By dose is bunged up with snot!
- Toothless sneezed a large amount of dragon snot right in Hiccup's face.
- As if I was going to sue the snot out of Adam for using a picture.
Synonyms of snot
Forms of snot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | snots |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | snots |
| present participle | snotting |
| past participle | snotted |
| past | snotted |
Origin of snot
From Middle English snot, snotte, from Old English ġesnot, *snott, from Proto-West Germanic *snott, *snutt, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz (“nasal mucus”), from the same base as snout; ultimately of onomatopoeic or sound-symbolic origin (compare sniff, snuff, snoot, snook), but possibly continuing Proto-Indo-European *snew-t- (“to flow, run”). Related also to snite. Cognate with North Frisian snot (“snot”), Saterland Frisian Snotte (“snot”), West Frisian snotte (“snot”), Dutch snot (“snot”), German Low German Snött (“snot”), dialectal German Schnutz (“snot”), Danish snot (“snot”), Norwegian snott (“snot”).
Words formed from snot
- bone-eating snot flower worm
- bullsnot
- cock snot
- dick snot
- eye-snot
- eye snot
- pecker snot
- rock snot
- sea snot
- slick as snot
- snarge
- snotbag
- snotball
- snot block
- snotbox
- snotface
- snot-green
- snothead
- snotlike
- snotnose
- snot-nosed
- snot otter
- snot rag
- snotrag
- snot rocket
- snotsicle
- snottie
- snottite
- Snottsdale
- snotty
- snot up
- snotwad
- the snot out of
Phrases with snot
Words that rhyme with snot
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- blot
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about snot
- What does snot mean?
- Snot means mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
- What is snot in Hindi?
- Snot in Hindi is रेंट (rẽṭ), पोंटा (põṭā). See Snot meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is snot?
- Snot can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce snot?
- Snot is pronounced /snɒt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of snot?
- The plural of snot is snots.
Words near snot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snot (page history and authors); snot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); മൂക്കട്ട (Malayalam) (page history and authors); खेट (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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