snot

See also: snót, Snót, snöt, snøt, and snot-

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English snot, snotte, from Old English ġesnot, *snott, from Proto-West Germanic *snott, *snutt, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz (“nasal mucus”), from the same base as snout. Related also to snite.

Cognate with North Frisian snot (“snot”), Saterland Frisian Snotte (“snot”), West Frisian snotte (“snot”), Dutch snot (“snot”), German Low German Snött (“snot”), dialectal German Schnutz (“snot”), Danish snot (“snot”), Norwegian snott (“snot”).

Pronunciation edit

enPR: snŏt, IPA^(key): /snɒt/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun edit

snot (countable and uncountable, plural snots)

(informal, uncountable, sometimes slightly vulgar) Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
- c. 1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys:
  Once, I remember, the little fair-haired boy had a choking fit at dinner, and a stream of snot ran out of his nose on to his plate in a way horrible to see.
(slang, countable) A contemptible child.
- 2010, Ernest L. Rhodes, A Coal Miner's Family at Mooseheart, page 19:
  With no warning a gang of little snots — none larger or older than I was — threw me to the ground, pulled my knickers below my knees — without any explanation, and allowed me to get up.
(slang, obsolete) A mean fellow.
(Northern England, dialectal) The flamed out wick of a candle.
Synonym: snuff
(US ?, figurative, informal) A blemish or encumbrance that one exercises out of something.
- 2019 December 6, Lee Boyce, “4 Reasons You’ve Got No Rear Delts”, in T-Nation‎^[1]:
  Working the snot out of shoulders at full flexion and extension end ranges with isometrics can not only be the hidden key to creating more available range of motion for immobile, injury-prone shoulders, but also to help develop dormant muscle groups like the rear delts, which otherwise get little to no play in exercises intended for them.

Synonyms edit

booger (US) (but note this noun is countable)

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

mucus

Ainu: エトㇽ (etor)
Arabic: مُخَاط m (muḵāṭ), مُخَاط أَنْف m (muḵāṭ ʔanf)
Armenian: փսլինք (hy) (pʻslinkʻ), խլինք (hy) (xlinkʻ)
Aromanian: muc m, muts m pl, mucã f
Azerbaijani: fırtıq
Bashkir: маңҡа (mañqa)
Belarusian: со́плі f pl (sópli)
Bulgarian: со́пол m (sópol)
Burmese: နှပ် (my) (hnap)
Buryat: нюһан (njuhan)
Catalan: moc (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 鼻涕 (zh) (bíti), 鼻水 (zh) (bíshuǐ), 鼻屎 (zh) (bíshǐ) (vulgar)
Czech: sopel (cs) m, nudle (cs) f
Danish: snot (da) n
Dutch: snot (nl) n
Esperanto: mukbuleto
Estonian: tatt (et)
Finnish: räkä (fi)
French: morve (fr) f, roupie (fr) f
Galician: moco m, mormo m
Georgian: ჟღვლინტი (žɣvlinṭi), წვინტლი (c̣vinṭli), ცინგლი (cingli), კინკლი (ḳinḳli), ბოტოტი (boṭoṭi)
German: Rotz (de) m, Rotze f, Schnodder (de) m, Nasenschleim (de) m (from nose only)
Greek: μύξα (el) f (mýxa)
Ancient: κόρυζα f (kóruza), μύξα f (múxa), λέμφος m (lémphos)
Greenlandic: kakkik
Hebrew: נַזֶּלֶת (he) f (nazélet)
Hindi: गुस्ताख़ (gustāx), घमण्डी (hi) m (ghamaṇḍī)
Hungarian: takony (hu)
Icelandic: hor n
Indonesian: ingus (id)
Ingrian: räkä
Italian: caccola (it) f, moccio (it) m, moccolo m
Japanese: 鼻水 (ja) (はなみず, hanamizu), 洟 (ja) (はな, hana), 鼻糞 (ja) (はなくそ, hanakuso) (vulgar)
Kaurna: nuki
Khmer: សម្បោរ (km) (sɑmbao), សិង្ឃានិក (km) (səngkhiənɨk)
Korean: 콧물 (ko) (konmul), 코딱지 (kottakji) (booger)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چڵم (çillm)
Lao: ນ້ຳມູກ (nam mūk)
Latvian: please add this translation if you can
Lithuanian: snarglys m
Macedonian: мр́сул m (mŕsul)
Malay: hingus, air hidung
Maori: hūpē, kea, keha
Marathi: शेंबूड m (śembūḍ)
Mongolian: нус (mn) (nus)
Navajo: néʼéshtił
Ngarrindjeri: nrugi
Norwegian: snørr (no) f or n
Ojibwe: wiiniskiigomaan
Persian: مف (fa) (mof), ان دماغ (fa) (an damâğ)
Polish: smark m, smarki pl or f
Portuguese: muco (pt) m, ranho (pt) m (liquid), tatu (pt) m (solid)
Romagnol: càcar m
Romanian: muci m pl
Russian: сопля́ (ru) f (sopljá), со́пли (ru) f pl (sópli) (usually plural)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бале f pl

Roman: bale (sh) f pl
Sherpa: སྣབས (snabs)
Sicilian: morvu (scn) m, mòccaru (scn), muccu (scn), brugghiu (scn)
Slovak: sopeľ m
Slovene: smrkelj m
Spanish: moco (es) m
Swedish: snor (sv) n
Tarifit: axrur m, aqennin m
Thai: น้ำมูก (th) (nám môok)
Tibetan: སྣ་ལུད (sna lud), སྣབས (snabs)
Turkish: sümük (tr)
Turkmen: sümük
Ukrainian: (slang) смарка́ль m (smarkálʹ), со́плі f pl (sópli), шма́рклі f pl (šmárkli)
Venetian: sgnaròco (vec) m, sgnarìcol m, napa (vec) f
Vietnamese: vuôi, mũi thò lò
Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

contemptible child

Armenian: փսլնքոտ (hy) (pʻslnkʻot)
Dutch: snotaap (nl)
Finnish: räkänokka (fi)
French: morveux (fr) m
German: Rotznase (de) f
Greek: μυξιάρικο (el) n (myxiáriko)
Ancient: κορυζᾶς m (koruzâs)
Hungarian: taknyos (hu)
Italian: monello (it) m, moccioso (it) m, peste (it) f
Macedonian: мрсулко m (mrsulko)
Norwegian: snørrunge m
Polish: smarkacz (pl) m, smark m, młokos (pl) m, szczeniak (pl) m, gówniarz (pl) m, zasmarkaniec m, zasraniec (pl) m (vulgar), smród (pl) m, smrodek (pl) m, gołowąs (pl) m, szczawik (pl) m, małolat (pl) m, gnój (pl) m, gnojek (pl) m, sraluch m, srajdek, grzdyl (pl) m, gówniak (pl) m, gówniak (pl) m
Portuguese: pivete (pt) m, pirralho (pt) m
Russian: сопля́к (ru) m (soplják), сопля́чка (ru) f (sopljáčka), молокосо́с (ru) m (molokosós)
Spanish: mocoso (es) m
Swedish: snorunge (sv) c, skitunge (sv)

Verb edit

snot (third-person singular simple present snots, present participle snotting, simple past and past participle snotted)

(transitive, intransitive, informal) To blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).
(intransitive, informal) To sniff or snivel; to produce snot, to have a runny nose.
- 2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury, published 2015, page 148:
  I was snotting all into my mouth and having to eat it, silently shuddering.