snot
/snɒt
/noun informal
1 [mass noun] Nasal mucus.I must say that I, for one, will really miss coming home from a good night out with a heathy wheeze, my nostrils ejecting generous quantities of blackened snot clogged with blood, and my eyes watering....
- She kicked her band off the stage after a few songs, streamed snot and hacked up phlegm from a lung infection, almost tore her own hands apart singing solo, and dragged a dwindling crowd along on a schizophrenic but mesmerising journey.
- It seems to spread by contact with respiratory secretions - snot and saliva.
2A contemptible or worthless person.And when you try to get help you get nothing but snots on the phone....
- She's rather stuck up and her friends are snots.
- You come to despise them because they're pampered snots.
Origin
Late Middle English: probably from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German; related to snout.
Rhymes
- teleologist
- teleology
- teleoperate
- teleoperation
- teleoperator
- teleost
- telepath
- telepathic
- telepathically
- telepathist
- telepathize
- telepathy
- telephone
- telephone bank
- telephone banking
- telephone book
- telephone booth
- telephone box
- telephone call
- telephone directory
- telephone exchange
- telephone kiosk
- telephone number
- telephone operator
- telephone pole