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snottery
adj 3noun 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
bloody, excremental, flowing, slimy, wet
VERB + SNOTTERY
care, enter, slavering, wiped
SNOTTERY + NOUN
nose, trunk
PREP.
about, out
ADV.
sometimes
Definitions
adj
1
Full of snot or phlegm; snotty.
She didn't care about her snottery nose.
"We are about to enter a slavering, snottery, gnashing, bloody, excremental, universal madness, dear boy," he said gently.
2
Resembling or characteristic of snot.
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.
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.
3
Presumptuous and demanding.
"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."
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.
noun
1
Abomination; filth.
To purge the snottery of our slimy time.
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—
2
Snobbishness.
[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.
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.
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She didn't care about her snottery nose.
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"We are about to enter a slavering, snottery, gnashing, bloody, excremental, universal madness, dear boy," he said gently.
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It ate with a kind of baleful indifference, its wet, snottery trunk curling out mechanically to take the food through the bars.
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To purge the snottery of our slimy time.
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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—
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For some reason (decades of responsibility 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 ite
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