snot

Meaning

Noun

1. (informal, uncountable) Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
2. (countable, slang) A contemptible child.
3. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A mean fellow.
4. (Northern-England, countable, dialectal, uncountable) The flamed out wick of a candle.
5. (countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable) A blemish or encumbrance that one exercises out of something.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive, informal) To blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).
2. (informal, intransitive) To sniff or snivel; to produce snot, to have a runny nose.

Synonyms

mucus

nasal mucus

snivel

booger

phlegm

mucous

slime

bogey

snuff

snoot

snotnose

prig

little child

nasal discharge

glanders

rheum

snob

bastard

nasty person

blow nose

bogy

disgusting

drip

fucker

mucilage

nuisance

pus

shit

💩

shithead

stinker

troublesome

whoreson

SOB

😭

pituita

common cold

mucus of the nose

Translations

morve

Rotz

moco

Nasenschleim

muco

muco

snot

μύξα

moccio

moccolo

Rotze

muco nasale

Schleim

mucus

Pronounced as (IPA)

/snɒt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: snot

Inherited from Old English: ġesnot

Cognate with Northern Frisian: snot

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Snotte

Cognate with Western Frisian: snotte

Cognate with Dutch: snot

Cognate with German: Schnutz

Cognate with Danish: snot

Cognate with Norwegian: snott

In summary

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”).