snot
pronunciation
How to pronounce snot in British English:
UK [snɒt]
How to pronounce snot in American English:
US [snɑt]
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- Noun:
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- nasal mucus
Word Origin
- snot (n.)
- late 14c., from Old English gesnot "nasal mucus," from Proto-Germanic *snuttan (cognates: Old Frisian snotta, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snotte, Middle Low German snute), from the same base as snout. Old English also had a verb snite "wipe or pick one's nose." Meaning "despicable person" is from 1809.
Example
- 1. You are a snot bubble driver .
- 2. Before that he had been researching the antibiotic properties of his own snot .
- 3. I don 't understand why he is acting this way until I look down and see the blood mixed in with the snot on his arm .
- 4. But even if numbers are lower than experience suggests , this still begs the question of why anybody should choose to eat their own snot .
- 5. You hear me , you little snot face ?