snotty-nose Now rare.
[See prec.]
a. One whose nose is dirty with snot; hence, a paltry, mean, or contemptible fellow.
| 1602 Dekker Honest Whore i. ii. i, Hang him, Mole catcher, it's the dreamingest snotty nose. 1614 B. Jonson Barth. Fair ii. v, Dos't so, snotty nose? good Lord! are you sniueling? 1712 Odes of Horace v. 12/2, I own he is no Snotty-Nose. 1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. i. 495 A little snotty⁓nose like that..and he's the [boxing] champion from all the world! |
b. attrib. or as adj. Snotty-nosed.
| 1622 Massinger & Dekker Virg. Martyr ii. i, Our puling, snotty-nose lady sent me out likewise. 1751 Smollett Per. Pic. ii, A snotty-nose boy, whom I myself have ordered to the gun, for stealing eggs. |