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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snot
noun
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▪ After which Sal and I could take him outside and beat the snot out of him.
▪ Carolyn lifted her head sightlessly, tears and snot streaming down her face.
▪ I think I cried about ten minutes in great sobbing bursts of noise, tears, and snot.
▪ In fact they would declare that no man worth his snot would sign up for welfare.
▪ Long strands of snot were hanging from her nose.
▪ Pressed against me, the women stitched, blew snot out of their noses, spat and belched.
▪ When I got to my feet I wiped a mixture of snot and blood from my nose and looked around.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snot

Snot \Snot\, v. t. To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.

Snot

Snot \Snot\, n. [AS. snot; akin to D. snot, LG. snotte, Dan. snot, and to E. snout. See Snout.]

  1. Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose. [Low]

  2. A mean, insignificant fellow. [Low]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
snot

late 14c., from Old English gesnot "nasal mucus," from Proto-Germanic *snuttan (cognates: Old Frisian snotta, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snotte, Middle Low German snute), from the same base as snout. Old English also had a verb snite "wipe or pick one's nose." Meaning "despicable person" is from 1809.

Wiktionary
snot

n. 1 (context informal uncountable English) mucus, especially mucus from the nose. 2 (context slang countable English) contemptible child. vb. (context transitive English) To blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).

WordNet
snot
  1. n. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob, prig]

  2. nasal mucus

Wikipedia
Snot

Snot is slang for nasal mucus or dried nasal mucus, but it may also refer to:

Snot (band)

Snot is an American rock band from Santa Barbara, California. Formed in 1995, the band released their debut studio album Get Some with founding vocalist Lynn Strait in 1997 and disbanded after his death in 1998. In 2008, the lineup of guitarists Mike Doling and Sonny Mayo, bassist John Fahnestock and drummer Jamie Miller reunited. In 2009, a new band, Tons, was formed, with Brandon Espinoza as vocalist. As of February 2014, Snot has reformed again.

Snot (disambiguation)

Usage examples of "snot".

Some had nothing on them but bits of shaving soap, but there were wet snots and big boogies in some of the others, he could smell their enticing aroma even now.

This frustrated her so much that she had to wipe away the tears and snot as she waited for Greogi and Emme to break through the frozen dirt before she could lift and shovel it away.

For some reason this strikes her as unbearably funny, and she snorts with laughter, wetting the tip of her nose with snot.

Her camisole stinks, her pantalettes have the snot of male ecstasy all over them.

Torricelli nephew, such a snot, and Paternoster with his incredible nose and the tramps cooking dinner in the rain in the Place de la Contrescarpe.

Each punny had to be beaten over and over again, all up and down its length and round its circumference, to break loose the snot of rotted and desiccated pulp from the long dark fibers.

And these, his comrades, these dirty-faced roughnecks, these dangerous brutalized amoral little creatures with pinched faces and ragged trousers, spattered with snot and rheum and urban dirt, girls in stained shifts and boys with jackets too big, grabbed cobblestones from the earth and pelted me where I lay in the darkness of a decaying threshold.

Mister CD looked down at her small vulnerable body, the drowned world of her eyes, the nostrils leaking rillets of snot she licked with her tongue.

He watched it, standing there, his arms full of his clothes from the day, the T-shirt with the grass and snot stains rolled into the middle, his jeans and socks a shell surrounding it.

I wolf down salad makings, damp British biscuits a day short of mold, balls of rice as lugubrious as snot, saturated in lentil and cabbage sauce.

The spit hit Roland Weary's shoulder, gave Weary a fourragière of snot and blutwurst and tobacco juice, and Schnapps.

While the creative staff bickers and shouts and hurls out one stale, derivative idea after another, the real stories are being made at the other end of the table, out of boogers, spit, snot, and farts.

He looked into pain-glazed angry eyes as the buffalo thrashed its head, bloody snot slinging in an arc.

Quietly burping a vapor of molten lava and dragon snot, a venom of fire ant, an essence that certain Middle Eastern governments might surely have converted to weaponry, she got hold of her emotions.

And then, no sooner had we started our dinners than Charles burst out crying at the table, and had to run from the kitchen wiping snot from his chin.