snotter

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Etymology 1

Noun

snotter (plural snotters)

  1. (nautical) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
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Etymology 2

Verb

snotter (third-person singular simple present snotters, present participle snottering, simple past and past participle snottered)

  1. (intransitive) To snivel; to cry or whine.
    • 1785, William Hutton, A Bran New Wark:
      Araund the woman her lile ans ſprawl'd on the hearth, ſome, whiting ſpeals, ſome, ſnottering and crying, and ya ruddy cheek'd lad threw on a bullen to make a loww, for its mother to find her loup.
    • 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham , Tales of My Landlord, Second Series,  In Four Volumes.">…] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: ">…] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
      What signified his bringing a woman here to snotter and snivel, and bather their Lordships?
    • 2021, Alison Craig, Blue Skies at the Birdie and Bramble:
      'Aaaaaah. and that's another thing, I want a home,' I snottered. What the hell was going on? I was an emotional wreck
  2. (colloquial) To smack; to hit
    • 2013, Maurice Procter, Devil's Due:
      'You snottered a sergeant, didn't you? My oh my! Clouting a police sergeant is something I've dreamed about for years.'

Noun

snotter (countable and uncountable, plural snotters)

  1. The wattles of a turkeycock.
  2. (Scotland) Snot; mucus.
  3. (UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
    • 1849, The Ragged School Union Magazine, volumes 1-2, page 175:
      We had our regular rendezvous, where we refreshed ourselves with meat and drink, sung obscene and abominable songs , instructed the younger members systematically in prigging (stealing,) concerted robberies, washed and valued "snotters" (handkerchiefs,) and disposed of them, besides the other practices of a nefarious and abandoned fraternity.
  4. (UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket who steals handkerchiefs.
    • 2020, Ellie Jacobs, The Last Orphan: A Victorian Romance:
      You're barely breaking even with the snotters stealing handkerchiefs in the square.

References

  1. ^ “snotter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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