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单词 snotty
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snottyn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnotty.
slang.
A midshipman.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [noun] > naval officer > midshipman
midships man1626
midshipman1652
mid1750
reefer1800
middy1818
midshipmite1834
ensign1886
brass-bounder1890
snotty1903
dogsbody1917
1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 286/1 Snottie, a midshipman.
1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 109 He was the second cutter's snottymy snotty—on the Archimandrite.
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin vi. 95 No boat ever left the ship under steam or sail without a ‘snotty’ in charge.
1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 61 Snotty, midshipman. (So called after the buttons on his sleeve, which are said to be there for a purpose not unconnected with the nickname.)
1974 P. Dickinson Poison Oracle ii. 47 A British Naval Party under the command of a snappily saluting little snotty.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

snottyadj.

Brit. /ˈsnɒti/, U.S. /ˈsnɑdi/
Forms: Also 1500s snatty.
Etymology: < snot n. Compare Middle Dutch snottich, North Frisian snottig, older Danish snøttig, obsolete German schnutzig.The word occurs also as a noun in dialect use; see the Eng. Dial. Dict. and Jamieson's Sc. Dict.
1.
a. Foul with snot or nasal mucus.Frequently in the 17th cent. of the nose.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge > of nose
snivellingc1290
snotty1545
snivelly1580
runny1911
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [adjective] > dirty with snivel
snivelled1531
snotty1545
snottish1648
snotty-nosed1682
snot-nosed1941
1545 Bibliotheca Eliotæ Mucosus, snatty or sniueled.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iiv/1 Snotty, purulentus.
1579 W. Fulke Refut. Rastels Confut. in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 797 [They] vsed them..as the Papists did with ye snottie napkins of Thomas Becket.
1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iii. iii Amoretto. Her nose is like a beautious maribone. Page. Marry a sweete snotty mistres.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. Sneevelly or snatty, snotachtigh.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 77 A defluxion from his nittie Hed, into his snottie Nose.
1739 ‘R. Bull’ tr. F. Dedekind Grobianus 12 Your snotty Fingers..Shall well supply the polish'd Mirror's Place.
1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 23 June (1932) (modernized text) V. 1900 One day his nose was very snotty, upon which I..wiped it for him.
1867 A. Dawson Rambling Recoll. (1868) 11 There was a knot of bare-legged snotty striplings.
proverbial.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Morveux Better a snottie nose then none.a1633 G. Herbert Jacula Prudentum in Wks. (1862) 328 Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
b. Dirty, mean, paltry, contemptible, etc. Now dialect or slang.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [adjective] > dirty and mean
ungoderlyc1400
sluttish?1529
squalid1596
scrubbing1603
sordid1611
snotty1681
frowzy1710
grub1719
seedy1725
unkempt1838
grubby1844
crumby1859
ratty1867
scruffy1871
scrutty1914
scummy1932
ribby1936
raunchy1937
sleazy1941
scroungy1948
manky1958
skanky1963
grungy1965
scungy1966
scuzzy1969
scrungy1974
skeevy1976
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible
unworthlyc1230
wretcha1250
seely1297
vilec1320
not worth a cress (kerse)1377
the value of a rushc1380
threadbarec1412
wretched1450
miserable?a1513
rascal1519
prettya1522
not worth a whistlea1529
pegrall1535
plack1539
pelting1540
scald1542
sleeveless1551
baggage1553
paltering1553
piddling1559
twopenny1560
paltry1565
rubbish1565
baggagely1573
pelfish1577
halfpenny1579
palting1579
baubling1581
three-halfpenny1581
pitiful1582
triobolar1585
squirting1589
not worth a lousea1592
hedge1596
cheap1597
peddling1597
dribbling1600
mean1600
rascally1600
three-farthingc1600
draughty1602
dilute1605
copper1609
peltry?a1610
threepenny1613
pelsy1631
pimping1640
triobolary1644
pigwidgeon1647
dustya1649
fiddling1652
puddlinga1653
insignificant1658
piteous1667
snotty1681
scrubbed1688
dishonourable1699
scrub1711
footy1720
fouty1722
rubbishing1731
chuck-farthing1748
rubbishy1753
shabby1753
scrubby1754
poxya1758
rubbishly1777
waff-like1808
trinkety1817
meanish1831
one-eyed1843
twiddling1844
measly1847
poking1850
picayunish1852
vild1853
picayune1856
snide1859
two-cent1859
rummagy1872
faddling1883
finicking1886
slushy1889
twopence halfpenny1890
jerk1893
pissy1922
crappy1928
two-bit1932
piddly1933
chickenshit1934
pissing1937
penny packet1943
farkakte1960
pony1964
gay1978
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible
unworthc893
unwrastc893
littleOE
narrow-hearteda1200
wretcha1200
unworthya1240
wretchedc1250
un-i-wrastc1275
bad1276
lechera1300
feeblea1325
despisablea1340
villain1340
contemptiblec1384
lousyc1386
caitiff1393
brothelyc1400
roinousa1425
poor1425
sevenpennyc1475
nasty1477
peakish1519
filthy1533
despectuous1541
beggary1542
scald1542
shitten?1545
disdainfula1547
contemptuous1549
despicable1553
skit-brained?1553
contemniblea1555
vile1560
sluttish1561
queer1567
scornful1570
scallardc1575
tinkerly?1576
worthless1576
beggarly?1577
paltry1578
halfpenny1579
dog bolt1580
pitiful1582
sneaking1582
triobolar1585
wormisha1586
baddy1586
dudgeon1592
measled1596
packstaff1598
roguey1598
roguish1601
contemptful1608
grovelling1608
lightly1608
disdainable1611
purulent1611
snotty-nose1622
vilipendious1630
cittern-headed1638
wormy1640
pissabed1643
triobolary1644
disparageable1648
blue-bellied1652
unestimable1656
scullion1658
piteous1667
dirty1670
shabbed1674
shabby1679
snotty1681
snotty-nosed1682
mucky1683
bollocky1694
scoundrel1700
scaldeda1704
sneaking1703
ficulnean1716
unsolid1731
pitiable1753
scrubby1754
inimitable1798
scrubbish1798
worm-likea1807
small1824
lowlife1827
ketty1828
skunkish1831
yellow-bellied1833
scaly1843
cockroachya1845
wutless1853
nigger1859
trashy1862
low-down1872
cruddy1877
shitty1879
tinhorn1886
blithering1889
motherfucking1890
snidey1890
pilgarlicky1894
shitass1895
shoddy1918
yah boo1921
bitching1929
shit-faced1932
turdish1936
fricking1937
jerk-off1937
chickenshit1940
sheg-up1941
snot-nosed1941
jerky1944
mother-loving1948
scroungy1948
fecking1952
pissant1952
shit-kicking1953
shit-eating1956
bumboclaat1957
rassclaat1957
shit-headed1959
farkakte1960
shithouse1966
daggy1967
dipshit1968
scuzzy1969
bloodclaat1971
bitch ass1972
wanky1972
streelish1974
twatty1975
twattish1976
dweeby1988
douchey1991
wank1991
cockish1996
1681 P. Rycaut tr. B. Gracián y Morales Critick 199 Let the confident Sophister know that he is but a snotty Charlatan.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 193 He babbles out his snotty slanders.
1712 Odes of Horace ii. 27/1 Horace is no such snotty author as to have this putid Stuff put upon him.
1828 T. Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 26 Ye snotty dog, Put in yor tram.
1958 J. C. Herold Mistress to Age (1959) iii. xiii. 263 Albertine had slapped the Crown Prince and called him a snotty brat.
1967 P. Welles Babyhip ii. 36 My brother tried to date her, but she rejected him. She told him she didn't admire Catholics. I think that's pretty snotty. We did go to the same Sunday School.
1974 S. Ellin Stronghold 60 ‘Did it strike you,’ Coco asks at his snotty meanest, ‘that if we came properly prepared, we could have stopped him from taking off?’
c. dialect or slang. Angry, curt, short-tempered; pert, saucy, impudent; proud, conceited. Now esp. supercilious, aloof, ‘snooty’.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective]
taunt?a1534
cocket1537
fastuous?1591
cobbing1599
whalebone1602
airy1606
fastigious1625
flatuous1630
high and mighty1633
vapouring1647
flatulent1658
hoity-toity1690
jackanapish1696
superior1711
penseful1788
uppish1789
pensy1790
stuck-up1812
glorified1821
toploftical1823
pretentious1832
sophomoric1837
highty-tighty1847
snippy1848
jumped-up1852
set-up1856
toplofty1859
cock-aloft1861
high-tone1864
high-toned1866
pretensivea1868
fancy-pants1870
hunched1870
snotty1870
head-in-air1880
uppity1880
jackanapsian1881
airified1882
sidey1898
posh1914
upstage1918
snooty1919
high-hatted1924
hincty1924
snot-nosed1941
posho1989
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [adjective]
stour1303
thwarta1325
elvishc1386
wrawc1386
wrawfulc1386
crabbeda1400
crousea1400
cursedc1400
doggeda1425
currishc1460
disagreeable1474
dour1488
thrawn1488
terne?1507
apirsmarta1522
crustyc1570
incommodious1570
bilious1571
mischievous-stomached1577
thrawn-faced1578
thrawn-mowit1578
wearisha1586
shrewish1596
rhubarbative1600
crabbish1606
ill-tempereda1616
cur-like1627
thrawn-faceda1628
terned1638
cross1639
splenial1641
frumpish1647
wry1649
bad-tempered1671
hot-tempered1673
sidy1673
ugly1687
ornery1692
cankerya1699
ramgunshoch1721
cantankerousc1736
frumpy1746
unhappy1756
grumpy1778
crabby1791
grumpish1797
thraw-gabbit18..
snarlish1813
cranky1821
stuntya1825
ill-natured1825
nattery1825
rantankerous1832
foul-tempered1835
cacochymical1836
as cross as two sticks1842
grumphy1846
knappy1855
carnaptious1858
cussed1858
three-cornered1863
snotty1870
sniffy1871
snorty1893
grouchy1895
scratchy1925
tight1950
stroppy1951
snitty1978
arsey1989
1870– in various dial. glossaries and texts.
1905 J. Joyce Let. 7 Feb. (1966) II. 80 Are the ‘girls’ ‘snotty’ about Nora?
1916 W. Owen Let. 9 Dec. (1967) 417 A snotty, acid, scot, impatient, irritated wretch.
1926 E. Hemingway Sun also Rises xviii. 218 I won't eat down-stairs with that German head waiter. He was damned snotty.
1930 Diary of Public School Girl 51 She was as snotty as ever.
1936 J. Reith Diary 13 May (1975) ii. 170 This is an insult... I was very snotty and reserved with the prig.
1968 Globe & Mail Mag. (Toronto) 13 Jan. 12/3 Francois is not always snotty, thank heaven.
1978 T. Gifford Glendower Legacy (1979) 39 He..thought for a moment of taking up the possibility of an exchange program with the snotty bastards in Cultural Affairs.
2. Consisting of snot; mucous; of the nature of, or resembling, snot; viscous, slimy. ? Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > mucus > [adjective] > of nose
snivelly1576
snotty1656
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > mucous discharge > of nose > having
snotty-nose1622
snotty1656
snotty-nosed1682
runny-nosed1922
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 88 That snotty white matter is not the fat.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxii. 137 Cooling Ointments—of Oyls and other snotty and greasie things.
1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iii. v. 111 The snotty Excrements of the Brain.
1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iii. v. 111 All that snotty matter comes from thence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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