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Definition: Snot-nosed |
Snot-nosedAdjective1. Used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety". 2. Dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snot-nosed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
Synonyms: Snot-nosedSynonyms: bigheaded (adj), persnickety (adj), snooty (adj), snotty (adj), stuck-up (adj), too big for one's breeches (adj), uppish (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Snot-nosed |
| English words defined with "snot-nosed": snotty. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "snot-nosed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | 洟垂れ小僧 (snot-nosed kid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はなたれ"ぞう (snot-nosed kid). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ot-nosedsnay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-n-o-o-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: snooted, sonnets, soonest, tendons. | |
-3 letters: nodose, nonets, noosed, nooses, odeons, onsets, setons, snoods, snoots, sondes, sonnet, sooted, stenos, stoned, stones, tendon, tenons, tondos, tonnes, tossed. | |
-4 letters: dents, doest, donne, doses, dotes, neons, nests, nodes, nones, nonet, noons, noose, nosed, noses, noted, notes, odeon, onset, sends, seton, sneds, snood, snoot, snots, sonde, sones, soots. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-n-o-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bondstones. | |
+2 letters: nonsteroids. | |
+3 letters: endodontists, nondomestics. | |
+4 letters: androsterones, condensations, corespondents, decongestions, endoskeletons, endosymbionts, nonassociated, polysyndetons, posttensioned. | |
+5 letters: considerations, coordinateness, correspondents, demonstrations, disconnections, foundationless, modernisations, nondepositions, nonrespondents, roundaboutness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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