snotty
/snˈɔtˌi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of mucus, especially in texture.
noun
The lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets.
Australian usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "Greasy hamburgers or snotty eggs? How about some of those fine pancakes that needed a steak knife to hack through?"
- ""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."
- "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."
- "Becky had been trying to move out of the society pages and into stories of more substance in recent months, a major shift for her. When I worked for the Herald, she was kind of a mincy, snotty little thing who dressed in heels and blouses […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *snuttuzder. Old English ġesnot Middle English snot English snot English -y English snotty From snot + -y.