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Definition: Snotty |
SnottyAdjective1. 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 "snotty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
Synonyms: SnottySynonyms: bigheaded (adj), persnickety (adj), snooty (adj), snot-nosed (adj), stuck-up (adj), too big for one's breeches (adj), uppish (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Snotty |
| English words defined with "snotty": bigheaded ♦ persnickety ♦ snooty, snot-nosed, stuck-up ♦ too big for one's breeches ♦ uppish. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "snotty": CHRISTMAS COMPLIMENTS. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hi, I'm Melanie Carmichael, Jake's snotty Yankee bitch wife (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) I'm Melanie, Jake's snotty Yankee bitch wife that he refuses to divorce (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Caroline, you're so snotty. Caroline, don't be so picky (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) | |
Lyrics | Or 19 kinda snotty actin real rude (Ride Wit Me (Featuring City Spud); performing artist: Nelly) | |
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| Phlegm; mucus; phlegmy; snot; snotty. | |
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| "Snotty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Snotty" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 91.3% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "snotty": snotty kid ♦ snotty nose ♦ snotty nosed. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "snotty": snotty-faced, snotty-nosed, snotty-nosed brat, snotty-nosed kid. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snotty | 6 |
chain key nose snotty | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snotty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | qurrash. (various references) | |
Arabic | مخاطي (mucoid), تسيل أنفه. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сополив (runny), ядосан (angry, grumpy, mad, pissed off, shirty, sick, teed off, warm, wrathful), нахален (arrogant, cheeky, contumelious, flip, forward, huffish, impudent, insolent, jumped-up, malapert, nervy, obtrusive, offensive, perky, presuming, sassy, saucy), мичман (reefer). (various references) | |
Czech | usmrkaný, posmrkaný, domýšlivý (arrogant, assuming, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, perky, pretentious, small beer, smug, uppish, upstage, vain), arogantní (arrogant, bigheaded, frosted, overbearing, self confident, smug, supercilious, uppish). (various references) | |
Finnish | räkäinen. (various references) | |
French | qui coule, morveux (snot). (various references) | |
German | rotzig (glanderous, snottily). (various references) | |
Greek | μυξιάρησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ ופח (exaggerated, haughty, inflated, swollen, vain, windy), י"יר (arrogant, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, overweening, pompous, popinjay, presumptuous, snob, snooty, supercilious, swollen), זב חוטם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | taknyos (rheumy, to snivel), tengerészkadét (midshipman, midshipmen), rongy (clout, piece of linen, rag, shred, tatter). (various references) | |
Indonesian | beringus. (various references) | |
Italian | moccioso (snottily, snotty kid, snottynosed kid). (various references) | |
Manx | smuggagh (catarrhal, mucous, snivelling, snuffling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ottysnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ranhoso, mal-humorado (bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, glum, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-tempered, moody, mumpish, snappish, snappy, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy), irritado (angry, huffish, huffy, peeved, pettish, resentful, roily, snappish, snappy, sore, techy, testy, tetchy, waxy), aspirante de marinha (midshipman, reefer). (various references) | |
Romanian | mucos (greenhorn, in short pants, mucous, stripling, unfledged), cãruia îi curge nasul. (various references) | |
Russian | сопливый, нахальный (bumptious, cheeky, cocky, impertinent, impudent, pert, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, smart-alecky). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slinav, odvratan (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, beastly, brackish, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, hideous, loathsome, mucky, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, odious, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, sordid, uncongenial, unlovely, vile). (various references) | |
Spanish | mocoso (brat, punk, pup, puppy, snotty-faced). (various references) | |
Swedish | snorkig (snooty, uppish, uppity), snorig, otrevlig (bleak, disagreeable, dismal, dreary, exasperating, fierce, ghastly, grisly, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, uncongenial, unpleasant). (various references) | |
Turkish | sümüklü (mucous, runnynose, slimy), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swelled head, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain), asteğmen, aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, petty, rascally, reptilian, scabby, scurvy, slavish, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy), öfkeli (angry, bristly, dyspeptic, enraged, furious, heated, hot-blooded, ill-conditioned, in a pet, incensed, indignant, inflamed, ireful, pissed off, purple in the face, rabid, rampant, red-hot, sore, spunky, vehement, waxy, white hot, with his hackles up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шмаркатий, огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), злий (bad, bad tempered, bitter, blackhearted, carping, evil, ill, ill natured, puckish, snappish, vicious, wicked). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Snotty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enott, notty, scotty, shotty, shotyk, snaty, snetty, snitty, snoth, snottie, snouty, sotty, stoty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "snotty" (pronounced 'Snot"ty'): Batty, BEAUTY, Betty, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Butty, Canty, Catty, Clotty, Cosurety, County, Cutty, Cytty, Duty, Flitty, Fouty, frailty, Fretty, Genty, gritty, Hasty, haughty, jaunty, kitty, knotty, Mitty, Motty, Musty, Nasty, Natty, Naughty, Netty, Nonsurety, nutty, Overempty, Overhasty, Patty, Pentecosty, Petty, Planxty, -plasty, Rafty, Reasty, safety, Shinty, Skilty, Skitty, smutty, spotty. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: stony. | |
-2 letters: nosy, snot, tons, tony, tost, tots, toys. | |
-3 letters: nos, not, ons, son, sot, soy, sty, syn, ton, tot, toy, yon. | |
-4 letters: no, on, os, oy, so, to, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-s-t-t-y" | |
+2 letters: snottily. | |
+3 letters: antistory, attorneys, contrasty, hypnotist, stenotype, stenotypy, tautonyms, testimony. | |
+4 letters: chatoyants, constantly, cytotoxins, hypnotists, keybuttons, nematocyst, outstaying, shantytown, stationary, stationery, stenotyped, stenotypes, thyratrons, toponymist, transitory, wyandottes. | |
+5 letters: antiobesity, butylations, countryseat, enterostomy, isotonicity, monstrosity, nematocysts, obstinately, outstudying, postnatally, shantytowns, spontaneity, stenotypies, stenotyping, stenotypist, strenuosity, stylization, tautonymies, tensiometry, toponymists, translatory, tryptophans. | |
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