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snotty
adjective- conceited, arrogant, aloof UK, 1870
- A jury is cold and impartial like they’re supposed to be, while some snotty lawyer makes them pour tears as he tells how his client was insane at the moment or had to shoot in self-defense. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, pp. 6–7, 1947
- [W]hat hurt most was not that his nose kept dripping and that the back of his head felt as if it had been rammed by a pile driver, but that the kids in the poolroom, those snotty little Tigers, were watching him take a beating from a kid[.] — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 57, 1947
- “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. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 167, 1951
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 200, 1968
- Snotty bitch. — Saturday Night Fever, 1977
- This snotty old dear on the next table[.] — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 344, 1999
- The snotty assistant clearly didn’t believe a word[.] — Mary Hooper, (megan)2, p. 145, 1999
- Which is a wee bit snotty, like, but so fuckin what. — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 285, 2002
- dirty with nasal mucus UK, 1570
While accepted in conventional usage, the root-word SNOT (nasal mucus) is considered vulgar. - When me nose gets snotty / An me cannot feel me botty / I get de feeling it is time fe go. — Benjamin Zephaniah, The Cold War, p. 26, 1992
- used of a drag racing track surface, slippery US
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 95, 1965
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