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Definition of Snotty-nosed
1. Adjective. Marked by casual disrespect. "The student was kept in for impudent behavior"
Exact synonyms: Flip, Impudent, Insolent
Similar to: Disrespectful
Derivative terms: Insolence, Insolence
Similar to: Disrespectful
Derivative terms: Insolence, Insolence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snotty-nosed
Literary usage of Snotty-nosed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Teesdale in the County of Durham by Frederick Dinsdale (1849)
""This Squire South my husband took in a dirty snotty-nosed boy."—Arbuthnot.
SNUB, v. (1) To check or reprimand a child. (2) To check the growth of trees, ..."
2. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1899)
"... an abounding sense of the ridiculous, which make for conviction in his readers
even now, as * Anglic}, his " own snotty-nosed youngster with the stone ..."
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