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snot-nosed

a. (context idiomatic English) young and arrogant or conceited.

WordNet
snot-nosed
  1. adj. 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" [syn: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish]

  2. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids" [syn: snotty]

Usage examples of "snot-nosed".

Most of that person's dislike centred around him being a civilian on a naval mission, a weasel-lover on a human crewed ship, a snot-nosed kid who'd been pampered all his life because of a lucky genetic break.

Some snot-nosed tech plugs you into a simple visualization program, hooks up an IV feed and a physical-therapy program so your body don't rot, and then leaves you imprisoned inside your own skull.

As Pork Belly LaRue later put it on the Soldiers for Hire web site: `Arno done got hisself outsmarted by some snot-nosed kid.

As Pork Belly LaRue later put it on the Soldiers for Hire web site: Arno done got hisself outsmarted by some snot-nosed kid.

Nor did he approve of this same young woman spending most of her waking hours either in study, or in the slums and shanty towns that had sprung up on the Cape Flats, dishing out to snot-nosed piccaninnies free soup the ingredients of which she had helped obtain by standing on street corners with a beggar's box.

Her mama had named her Kathy-Mae, and she was just another snot-nosed, scabby-kneed, malnourished yard ape destined to grow up hard and ignorant in the Carolina hills.