snot-nosed

See also: snotnosed

English

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Etymology

From snot +‎ nosed; evoking a certain stereotype of conceited youth as suffering upper respiratory ailments that result in mucus-filled noses and nasal voices.

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Adjective

snot-nosed (comparative more snot-nosed, superlative most snot-nosed)

  1. (idiomatic, slang, derogatory) Young and arrogant or conceited.
    • 2016 August 26, Tal Kopan and Theodore Schleifer, “Target of explicit LePage voicemail denies calling him a racist”, in CNN‎[1]:
      “When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825,” LePage said, according to the Press Herald.

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