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snotty

snotty adjective: running or dirtied with mucus.

Adjective

snotty (comparative snottier, superlative snottiest)

  1. Running or dirtied with mucus.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of mucus, especially in texture.
    • Greasy hamburgers or snotty eggs? How about some of those fine pancakes that needed a steak knife to hack through?2007, Tom Carroll, The Confession of Mason Young, page 69
  3. (informal) Ill-tempered or impertinent in an arrogant, conceited manner.
    • "None of your business," she said. She can be very snotty sometimes. She can be quite snotty. "I suppose you failed in every single subject again," she said—very snotty. It was sort of funny, too, in a way. She sounds like a goddam schoolteacher sometimes, and she's only a little child.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 22, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC
    • The people there where mostly white, and mostly poor. There wasn't much of a middle class, except for a few well-educated folk trying hard not to be snotty so their kids wouldn't get beat up at school.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page ix

Noun

snotty (plural snotties)

  1. (Australia, slang) The lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets.
  2. (slang) A midshipman.

snotty meaning in Tamil and Urdu

snotty in Tamil

கப்பற் பணியாள்

snotty in Urdu

نک چڑھا

Forms of snotty

Adjective
comparativesnottier
superlativesnottiest
alternative formsnottie
Noun
pluralsnotties

Origin of snotty

From snot + -y.

Words formed from snotty

Questions about snotty

What does snotty mean?
Snotty means running or dirtied with mucus.
What is snotty in Tamil?
Snotty in Tamil is கப்பற் பணியாள். See Snotty meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is snotty?
Snotty can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near snotty in the dictionary

  1. snotting
  2. snotting up
  3. snottite
  4. snottites
  5. Snottsdale
  6. snotty
  7. snotty's nurse
  8. snotty-nosed
  9. snottygobble
  10. snottygobbles
  11. snotwad

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