Meaning of snottery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Full of snot or phlegm; snotty.
   colloquial
2. Resembling or characteristic of snot.
   colloquial
3. Presumptuous and demanding.
   colloquial

Examples

“She didn't care about her snottery nose.”

“"We are about to enter a slavering, snottery, gnashing, bloody, excremental, universal madness, dear boy," he said gently.”

“It ate with a kind of baleful indifference, its wet, snottery trunk curling out mechanically to take the food through the bars.”

“She made a witty comment about tissues: at least it wasnt a snottery tissue like how some people leave their snottery tissues on the baize.”

“A mistake in the kitchen one day, and while the rest of the household sup on the golden broth of a cockerel, out comes a bowl of thin, snottery gruel for Mhairi.”

“The old man sucked at his pipe, a great snottery, gurgling sound, and tamped down the black, oily tobacco with a horny forefinger, keeping up the suspense like the consummate showman that he was.”

“I heard him laugh, a deep, snottery rumble, familiarly full of phlegm and juvenile amusement.”

“"You are in an unco' hurry," she replied, getting nettled, as she filled a glass. "It doesna' do to be so snottery as a' that."”

“She still thought that, in a way, but she'd tell me in any case. I was, she explained, a snottery, two-faced wee shite.”

“Una is turned into a right snottery wee brat, and she will need to mind her step.”

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