snot

plural snots

1. informaluncountablesometimes slightly vulgarMucus, especially mucus from the nose.

   Once, I remember, the little fair-haired boy had a choking fit at dinner, and a stream of snot ran out of his nose on to his plate in a way horrible to see.

   c. 1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys

2. slanguncountablevulgarSemen.
3. countableslangA contemptible child.

   With no warning a gang of little snots — none larger or older than I was — threw me to the ground, pulled my knickers below my knees — without any explanation, and allowed me to get up.

   2010, Ernest L. Rhodes, A Coal Miner's Family at Mooseheart, page 19

4. countableobsoleteslanguncountableA mean fellow.
5. Northern EnglandcountabledialectaluncountableThe flamed out wick of a candle.

   Synonyms: snuff

present singular third person snots · participle present snotting · participle past snotted · past snotted

1. ambitransitiveinformalTo blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).
2. informalintransitiveTo sniff or snivel; to produce snot, to have a runny nose.

   I was snotting all into my mouth and having to eat it, silently shuddering.

   2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury, published 2015, page 148