What's the difference between snot and snotty?

Snot


Definition:

  • (n.) Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose.
  • (n.) A mean, insignificant fellow.
  • (v. t.) To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But really it's because That's What Real Cyclists Do, along with blowing their noses by shooting snot out of a nostril at high speed, and obsessing over their weight.
  • (2) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (3) Most of the restaurants in China to me smelled dirty, though what I was smelling was likely some unfamiliar ingredient, and I was allowing the things I'd seen earlier in the day – the spitting and snot blowing, etc – to fill in the blanks.
  • (4) The supermarket cashier holds out your change and you take it thinking, "This woman squats and spits on the floor while shitting and blowing snot out of her nose."
  • (5) Over the course of 500 pages he wrestles a swarthy rage he names "the Fury", battens down his cravings, sprays spit and snot and blood and urine, recounts his misdemeanours, finds friendship, and falls in love.
  • (6) At one point, I watched Este and Danielle inspect the insides of Alana's nose, at length, for visible snot.
  • (7) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
  • (8) There's no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails.
  • (9) Her range is immense, from the unguarded ecstasies of first love to the tear-drenched, snot-dribbling grief of loss.
  • (10) From snot-nosed weeping to loving cuddles, there are feelings everywhere, as is the sense this is a safe place to feel them – even as a man.
  • (11) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
  • (12) Then you roll up and you've got to bowl sides out on an absolute snot heap, as slow a pitch as you can get.
  • (13) Last year the Ocean Alliance partnered with tech heads Yuneec to create “snot bots”; drones with petri dishes attached.
  • (14) Great gobs of snot run down Merlin's grey fur, while his tongue flicks in and out of his mouth.
  • (15) One of them often had a threatening trail of snot about to drip on the programme (same price as the peanuts) but he would sniff it up just in time.
  • (16) For research purposes, the drones are flown over water to catch spray and snot from whales when the animals exhale.
  • (17) Also, I fear that Chiellini lacks the speed to contain Suarez, although I am sure he will beat the snot out of him."
  • (18) "We're talking tears, snot … just sobbing in an audience of 30 people."
  • (19) It's their destiny too, but they're way too full of snot and pep to notice.
  • (20) I then spent two hours counselling a woman who snotted on my shoulder about her breakup 10 years ago.

Snotty


Definition:

  • (a.) Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But later, by the time he was selling out theatres for his live shows, that gawky guile and snotty cheek had morphed into relentless anxiety and slapstick self-consciousness.
  • (2) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (3) Hackney Council has actually done a good job of improving the environment and by and large the borough is a fairly good place to live and not nearly as overrun with snotty upper-middle class twits as other gentrified boroughs.
  • (4) but there was a snotty punk rock edge to Gregg Popovich's reply.
  • (5) Reviews call her “deft” and “deliciously snotty”, her presence in a film a “recommendation”.
  • (6) The very idea of us renouncing a beverage that King Charles II tried to ban and The Women's Petition Against Coffee of 1674 claimed had "so Eunucht our Husbands and Crippled our more kind gallants they come from it with nothing moist but their snotty noses, nothing stiffe but their Joints ..." is unthinkable.
  • (7) One is the cheeringly snotty cheek of the journalist.
  • (8) She recently scrapped an entire snotty punk record, and an early listen to this reveals a fair few tunes-by-numbers that belie the heavyweight producers (StarGate).
  • (9) His mother sees him out of the house while I slump on the sofa and weep, gasping, snotty, desperate, final: "I have lost my son."
  • (10) Quite the opposite I have no time for the all-too-smug, seen-it-all-before snottiness towards Russell Brand that is so prevalent among the political commentariat.
  • (11) I can still remember reading the chart every fortnight, bewildered and thrilled at the names it contained: Poor Old Soul by Orange Juice, Let’s Build a Car by Swell Maps, There Goes Concorde Again by And The Native Hipsters, even I’m in Love with Margaret Thatcher by The Notsensibles (released, unbelievably, by a record label called Snotty Snail).
  • (12) Because no doubt it’s because my ladybrain is soft and can only cope with things like leather trousers, but I don’t understand the snottiness around money and clothes.

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