snottery

snottery adjective: full of snot or phlegm; snotty.

Adjective

snottery (comparative more snottery, superlative most snottery)

(colloquial) Full of snot or phlegm; snotty.
- She didn't care about her snottery nose.2001, Bess Ross, Those Other Times, page 78
- "We are about to enter a slavering, snottery, gnashing, bloody, excremental, universal madness, dear boy," he said gently.2001, Robin Jenkins, Guests of War, page 104
(colloquial) Resembling or characteristic of snot.
- A mistake in the kitchen one day, and while the rest of the household sup on the golden broth of a cockerel, out comes a bowl of thin, snottery gruel for Mhairi.1988, Ellen Galford, The fires of Bride: a novel, page 111
- The old man sucked at his pipe, a great snottery, gurgling sound, and tamped down the black, oily tobacco with a horny forefinger, keeping up the suspense like the consummate showman that he was.1999, Donald Macintosh, Travels in Galloway, →ISBN, page 51
(colloquial) Presumptuous and demanding.
- "You are in an unco' hurry," she replied, getting nettled, as she filled a glass. "It doesna' do to be so snottery as a' that."1920, James C. Welsh, The Underworld: The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner, page 192
- She still thought that, in a way, but she'd tell me in any case. I was, she explained, a snottery, two-faced wee shite.1995, Jude Collins, Booing the Bishop and Other Stories, page 36

snottery (countable and uncountable, plural snotteries)

(colloquial, rare) Abomination; filth.
- To purge the snottery of our slimy time.1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of...
- She keeled the pot and swept away the dust. Changed the wet breechclouts, wiped the flowing snottery—And sometimes took a stroll as far as Shottery—1975, Scholia Satyrica, page 29
(colloquial) Snobbishness.
- [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of...1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii
- In any case it would be nice to know if Neiman-Marcus, that famed emporium of chi-chi and snottery (see The New Yorker, its "home away from home," any issue) and now Dallas's second most-celebrated landmark, purveys chamber-pots — "His" and "Hers," let us say, cast in platinum or palladium (no...1964, The Smith, page 54

It ate with a kind of baleful indifference, its wet, snottery trunk curling out mechanically to take the food through the bars.2003, James Robertson, Joseph Knight, →ISBN, page 103:
She made a witty comment about tissues: at least it wasnt a snottery tissue like how some people leave their snottery tissues on the baize.2012, James Kelman, Mo Said She Was Quirky, →ISBN:
I heard him laugh, a deep, snottery rumble, familiarly full of phlegm and juvenile amusement.2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 355:
Una is turned into a right snottery wee brat, and she will need to mind her step.2001, Evelyn Conlon, Hans-Christian Oeser, Cutting the Night in Two: Short Stories by Irish Women Writers:

From snot + -ery (adjectival suffix). Compare snotty.

From snot + -ery.

What does snottery mean?: Snottery means full of snot or phlegm; snotty.
How do you use snottery in a sentence?: It ate with a kind of baleful indifference, its wet, snottery trunk curling out mechanically to take the food through the bars.
What part of speech is snottery?: Snottery can be an adjective or a noun.

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