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snotty
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective snotty has 2 senses
- snotty(s = adj.all) bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish - (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety" Derived form noun snot1
- snotty(s = adj.all) snot-nosed - dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids" Derived form noun snot2
OXFORD DICTIONARY
snotty, adj. (snottier, snottiest) sl.
1 running or foul with nasal mucus.
2 contemptible.
3 supercilious, conceited.
1 running or foul with nasal mucus.
2 contemptible.
3 supercilious, conceited.
Derivative
snottily adv. snottiness n.
THESAURUS
snotty
arrogant, clannish, cliquish, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, exclusive, haughty, high-hat, muciferous, mucific, mucinous, mucoid, mucous, muculent, patronizing, pituitous, priggish, scornful, sneering, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, withering
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