Crossword clues for snotty
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snotty \Snot"ty\, a. Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty. [1913 Webster] -- Snot"ti*ly, adv. -- Snot"ti*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "full of snot," from snot + -y (2). Meaning "impudent, curt, conceited" is from 1870. Related: Snottily; snottiness. Snotnose "upstart" is from 1941; snotty-nose "contemptible fellow" is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
a. 1 running or dirty with snot. 2 ill-tempered, impertinent.
WordNet
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, snot-nosed, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish]
dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids" [syn: snot-nosed]
Usage examples of "snotty".
Time and again, on ship or Station, a snotty puter had aggravated me beyond endurance.
Trask, had pointed out that most of the guards sounded pretty snotty themselves.
He was a stroppy runt with a tray he could hardly carry, unable to wipe his snotty nose on his sleeve because he was holding the tray.
I got a bit snotty with her and I said to her, Farmer Bentwood believes in witchery, her witchery.
Tall Man was outside the agency headquarters, surrounded by Piegan tribal police and engaged in a silent fury of hand-to-hand combat with at least eight of the snotty sons of bitches.
But then I realized that no one in the Sacher was going to be snotty to us, because I saw for the first time what my father really looked like.
I figured she might have trouble maintaining the necessary distance because of how close to her age the snotties are.
Which could not have anything to do with the lengthy experience in this sort of operation neither of the snotties had.
Tobias running preliminary updates on our charts, and I promised him he can have the snotties when he needs them.
After all, what do a dozen or so snotties have to do with planning an attack or defense, deciding whether to roll the ship or fire from all ports?
I invited you to drop by my office before you report to Snotty Row, however, is that not all snotties really are equal, however hard we try to make them that way.
He doubted that any midshipman ever really appreciated the fact that an officer candidate training officer who did his job properly wound up running almost as hard and as fast as his snotties did.
Dublin being snotty, plenty of the cars which passed Gardai Kehoe and Cummins cost more than twice their annual salaries, before tax.
Fools, especially snotty twits like the man who had superciliously informed him that slavery could not possibly antedate genetic science, he did not suffer gladly.
He's your perfect citizen of Cleary: snotty, confident, comforting as long as you share his race and ancestry.