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snot
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun snot has 2 senses
- snot(n = noun.person) prig, snob, snoot - a person regarded as arrogant and annoying; Array is a kind of disagreeable person, unpleasant person
- snot(n = noun.body) Array - nasal mucus; Array is a kind of mucous secretion, mucus
Derived form adjective snotty1
Derived form adjective snotty2
CIDE DICTIONARY
snot, n. [AS. snot; akin to D. snot, LG. snotte, Dan. snot, and to E. snout. See Snout.].
- Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose. [1913 Webster]
- A mean, insignificant fellow. [1913 Webster]
snot, v. t.
To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
snot, n. sl.
1 nasal mucus.
2 a term of contempt for a person.
1 nasal mucus.
2 a term of contempt for a person.
Idiom
snot-rag a handkerchief.
Etymology
prob. f. MDu., MLG snotte, MHG snuz, rel. to SNOUT
THESAURUS
snot
bugger, carrion, chyle, colostrum, corruption, creep, crumb, cur, dandruff, decay, discharge, dog, excrement, filth, foul matter, furfur, gangrene, gleet, high-hat, humor, ichor, knave, lachryma, lactation, leukorrhea, louse, lowlife, lymph, matter, mess, milk, muck, mucor, mucus, obscenity, ordure, peccant humor, phlegm, pig, prick, puke, purulence, pus, putrid matter, rat, reptile, rheum, rogue, rot, saliva, sanies, scoundrel, scum, scurf, scuz, serous fluid, serum, shit, shithead, skunk, slime, smut, snake, snoot, sod, sordes, stinkard, stinker, suppuration, sweat, tear, teardrop, the whites, toad, turd, urine, wretch
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