snot

Meanings

Noun

• Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
• A contemptible child.
• A mean fellow.
• The flamed out wick of a candle.
• A blemish or encumbrance that one exercises out of something.

Verb

• To blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).
• To sniff or snivel; to produce snot, to have a runny nose.

Related

Similar words

• booger (but note this noun is countable)

Origin

• From Middle English snot, snotte, from Old English ġesnot, *snott, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz, from the same base as snout. Related also to snite.
• Cognate with North Frisian snot, Saterland Frisian Snotte, West Frisian snotte, Dutch snot, German Low German Snött, dialectal German Schnutz, Danish snot, Norwegian snott.