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▪ I. snotter, n.1 Sc. and north.|ˈsnɒtə(r)|
[A derivative from snot n., corresponding to MDu. snoter, MLG. snotter, G. dial. schnotter, schnodder: cf. Du. and LG. snotterig snotty. Sense 3 is prob. f. snot v.]
1. Snot or nasal mucus. Also used fig. to denote something of little or no value, significance, or importance.
Various other dial. senses and attrib. uses are recorded in the Eng. Dial. Dict.
a1689Cleland Poems (1697) 109 (Jam.), Hence I inferr..No help nor gloss can weigh a snotter. 1720Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 110 Coachmen, grooms, or pasment trotter, Glitter'd a while, then turn'd to snoter. a1779D. Graham Writ. (1883) II. 154 A weel blooded hissie..that carefully combs the young things' heads,..snites the snotter frae their nose [etc.]. 1808–in Sc. and north. dial. glossaries. 1836J. Struthers Dychmont ii. Wks. 1850 II. 70 Brats in rags, inch thick with snotter.
attrib.a1779? D. Graham Yng. Coal-man's Courtship (1787) 4 His mither..blew her snotter box, primed her nose, kindled her tobacco pipe [etc.].
2. attrib. and pl. (See quots.)
1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Snotter⁓gob, the red part of a turkey's head. 1832C. M. Goodridge Voy. S. Seas 30 The parts [of the sea-elephant] we made use of for food, were the heart,..the snotters, (a sort of fleshy skin which hangs over the nose,) and the flippers.
3. slang. (See quots.)
1823Bee Dict. Turf, Snotter, a ragged, dirty kerchief. 1864Slang Dict. 239 Snotter, or wipe-hauler, a pick⁓pocket who commits great depredations upon gentlemen's pocket-handkerchiefs.
▪ II. ˈsnotter, n.2 Naut.
[Of obscure origin: cf. snorter2.]
1. (See quots.)
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v. Sprit, The lower end of the sprit rests in a sort of wreath or collar called the snotter, which encircles the mast in that place. 1815Burney Falconer's Dict. Marine 487/2 Snotter,..a short rope spliced together at the ends, and served with spun⁓yarn, or covered with hide. 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 288 Snotter, a rope going over a yard-arm with an eye forming a becket to bend a tripping-line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards. 1894Outing XXIV. 149/2 The upper end fits into a cringle or eye in the peak of the sail and the lower end into a snotter on the mast.
2. A length of rope with an eye spliced in each end.
1950[see snorter2 2]. 1956C. L. Sauerbier Marine Cargo Operations vii. 416 The sling is constructed in the same manner as the fiber rope snotter. 1961Course & Oram Gloss. Cargo-Handling Terms 72 The snotter is stretched out to its full length and the package placed on it centrally. The ends of the snotter are brought over it and one eye rove through the other and placed on the lifting hook.
▪ III. ˈsnotter, v. Sc. and north. dial.
[Cf. snotter n.1
The Eng. Dial. Dict. contains other dial. uses.]
1. intr. To breathe heavily; to snuffle, snore, or snort.
1710Ruddiman Gloss. Virgil s.v. Snokis, Perhaps it may signifie smels or snuffs by sucking in the breath at the nose; which..also we call Snottering, or Snokering, or Sniftering. 1724Ramsay Health 288 All day he snotters, nods, and yawns. 1776D. Herd Collect. Songs II. 98 Thou turns sleepy and blind, And snoters and snores far frae me. 1849–in dial. glossaries and texts.
2. To snivel or snuffle in weeping.
1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. 96 Snotter, to sob or cry. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxiii, What signified his bringing a woman here to snotter and snivel, and bather their Lordships? 1825–in northern dial. glossaries, etc. |