1922 J. Joyce i. 5 Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton.
1939 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood i. 48 The averted, snot-smeared, animal faces of the very humble.
1975 T. Stoppard i. 23 The swiftly-gliding snot-green (mucus mutandis) Limmat River.