snot-nosed

See also: snotnosed

English

Alternative forms

• snotnosed, snotty-nosed
• snotnose, snot-nose

Etymology

From snot +‎ nosed; evoking a certain stereotype of conceited youth as suffering upper respiratory ailments that result in mucus-filled noses and nasal voices.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

snot-nosed (comparative more snot-nosed, superlative most snot-nosed)

1. (idiomatic, slang, derogatory) Young and arrogant or conceited.
   • 2016 August 26, Tal Kopan and Theodore Schleifer, “Target of explicit LePage voicemail denies calling him a racist”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825,” LePage said, according to the Press Herald.

Translations

young and arrogant

• Dutch: snotneus (nl) m
• Finnish: räkänokkainen
• French: morveux (fr) m
• Polish: smarkacz (pl) m
• Russian: сопля́к (ru) m (soplják)
• Ukrainian: шмаркач m (šmarkač)