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Snotty

Definition: Snotty

Snotty

Adjective

1. 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: Snotty

Synonyms: bigheaded (adj), persnickety (adj), snooty (adj), snot-nosed (adj), stuck-up (adj), too big for one's breeches (adj), uppish (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Snotty

English words defined with "snotty": bigheadedpersnicketysnooty, snot-nosed, stuck-uptoo big for one's breechesuppish. (references)
Specialty definitions using "snotty": CHRISTMAS COMPLIMENTS. (references)

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Modern Usage: Snotty

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Snotty

DomainTitle

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Music

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Image Slideshow: Snotty

Computer Images:
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Sounds Captioned with "Snotty".

PlayCaption
Phlegm; mucus; phlegmy; snot; snotty.
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Usage Frequency: Snotty

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)91.3%2176,261
Noun (singular)8.7%2245,945
                    Total100.00%23N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Snotty

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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snotty

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

snotty

6

chain key nose snotty

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Snotty

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.

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Misspellings: Snotty

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).

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Rhyming with "Snotty"

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)

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Anagrams: Snotty

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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