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Definition of Snot-nosed
1. Adjective. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant. "They're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
Similar to: Proud
Derivative terms: Snoot, Snot, Uppishness
2. Adjective. Dirty with nasal discharge. "A house full of snot-nosed kids"
Definition of Snot-nosed
1. Adjective. (idiomatic) Young and arrogant or conceited. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snot-nosed
Literary usage of Snot-nosed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New English by T[homas] L[aurence] Kington Oliphant (1886)
"19. The old on ¡if (alive) now gives birth to a new adjective, a live dog, p.
286. The swa/ftd of 1440 now gives birth to snot nosed, p. ..."
2. The Enlisted Experience: A Conversation With the Chief Master Sergeants of edited by Janet R. Daly Bednarek (1995)
"... and then the young kids like us.36 In many cases we were looked upon as young,
snot-nosed kids who really had never seen anything. ..."
3. Transactions of the First-fifty-ninth Annual Meeting by Ohio state medical society (1857)
""The young doctors—pshaw! what can such (snot nosed) boys know ? " It is true,
sometimes our granny would get into a tight pinch, and some of those despised ..."
4. Seraphim Trilogy Book One; What the Herald Angel Sang by Teralee E. M. Bird (2004)
"Just give any of those snot-nosed bozos a semi-auto, and they thought they had
the world by the balls. Bunch of yipping pups was what they were. ..."
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