snottery

English

Etymology

Compare snotty.

Adjective

snottery (comparative more snottery, superlative most snottery)

Full of snot or phlegm; snotty.
- 2001, Bess Ross, Those Other Times, page 78:
  She didn't care about her snottery nose.
- 2001, Robin Jenkins, Guests of War, page 104:
  "We are about to enter a slavering, snottery, gnashing, bloody, excremental, universal madness, dear boy," he said gently.
- 2003, James Robertson, Joseph Knight, →ISBN, page 103:
  It ate with a kind of baleful indifference, its wet, snottery trunk curling out mechanically to take the food through the bars.
- 2012, James Kelman, Mo Said She Was Quirky, →ISBN:
  She made a witty comment about tissues: at least it wasnt a snottery tissue like how some people leave their snottery tissues on the baize.
Resembling or characteristic of snot.
- 1988, Ellen Galford, The fires of Bride: a novel, page 111:
  A mistake in the kitchen one day, and while the rest of the household sup on the golden broth of a cockerel, out comes a bowl of thin, snottery gruel for Mhairi.
- 1999, Donald Macintosh, Travels in Galloway, →ISBN, page 51:
  The old man sucked at his pipe, a great snottery, gurgling sound, and tamped down the black, oily tobacco with a horny forefinger, keeping up the suspense like the consummate showman that he was.
- 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 355:
  I heard him laugh, a deep, snottery rumble, familiarly full of phlegm and juvenile amusement.
Presumptuous and demanding.
- 1920, James C. Welsh, The Underworld: The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner, page 192:
  "You are in an unco' hurry," she replied, getting nettled, as she filled a glass. "It doesna' do to be so snottery as a' that."
- 1995, Jude Collins, Booing the Bishop and Other Stories, page 36:
  She still thought that, in a way, but she'd tell me in any case. I was, she explained, a snottery, two-faced wee shite.
- 2001, Evelyn Conlon, Hans-Christian Oeser, Cutting the Night in Two: Short Stories by Irish Women Writers:
  Una is turned into a right snottery wee brat, and she will need to mind her step.

Noun

snottery (countable and uncountable, plural snotteries)

(rare) Abomination; filth.
- 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms; John Marston], The Scourge of Villanie. […], London: […] I[ames] R[oberts], →OCLC; republished as G[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor, The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos; 13), London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, 1925, →OCLC:
  To purge the snottery of our slimy time.
- 1975, Scholia Satyrica, page 29:
  She keeled the pot and swept away the dust. Changed the wet breechclouts, wiped the flowing snottery—And sometimes took a stroll as far as Shottery—
- 1982, Natalie L. M. Petesch, Duncan's Colony, page 30:
  For some reason (decades of responsiblity to cleanliness and hygiene — what lady could blow her nose into a locust leaf?) the inability to place my hands on what would once have been a commonplace item unnerved me; were we to degenerate into filth and snottery?
Snobbishness
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii:
  [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of Senſe vvould crack / The ſinevves of my Patience.
- 1964, The Smith, page 54:
  In any case it would be nice to know if Neiman-Marcus, that famed emporium of chi-chi and snottery (see The New Yorker, its "home away from home," any issue) and now Dallas's second most-celebrated landmark, purveys chamber-pots — "His" and "Hers," let us say, cast in platinum or palladium (no gold, please, really, where have you been?), having diamond-studded handles (even Neiman-Marcus can't find anything more expensive than diamonds — no chips, of course) and emerald or sapphire eyes (with real lashes — gleaned from Elizabeth Taylor's coiffeur, naturally) encrusted in the bottoms.
- 1980, Robertson Davies, A Mixture of Frailties, page 82:
  Just you be careful, my girl, not to pick up a lotta snottery when you're over there among all them dudes. You got to keep your feet on the ground, and not get so's we can't understand a word you say.
- 1999, Kevin Walter Johnson, Was That a Balloon or Did Your Head Just Pop?, →ISBN:
  He felt shock waves rumble through as he recognized his Sunday school snottery—how he thought he was better than other people, how he had a mighty swirly potty mouth, how at home he'd been on a six-month rampage about homework and chores, and how his sneaking out of the house had betrayed his parents.