rotzen
Meaning
- (colloquial, weak) to blow one's nose noisily
- (especially, weak) to sniff up snot through the nose (and spit it out), to gob
- (broadly, derogatory, weak) to spit (on the pavement etc.)
Concepts
blow one’s nose
Translations
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʁɔtsən/
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hruttōną (“to snore, roar”), attested since the 16th century, synchronically analyzable as Rotz + -en.
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