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snotter en · NOUN · etymology 1
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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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snotter en · NOUN · etymology 2
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(countable, uncountable) The wattles of a turkeycock.
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(Scotland, countable, uncountable) Snot; mucus.
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(UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A handkerchief.
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.
1849, The Ragged School Union Magazine, volumes 1-2, page 175:
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(UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable) A pickpocket who steals handkerchiefs.
You're barely breaking even with the snotters stealing handkerchiefs in the square.
2020, Ellie Jacobs, The Last Orphan: A Victorian Romance:
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snotter en · VERB · etymology 2
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(intransitive) To snivel; to cry or whine.
What signified his bringing a woman here to snotter and snivel, and bather their Lordships?
1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC: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.
1785, William Hutton, A Bran New Wark:'Aaaaaah. and that's another thing, I want a home,' I snottered. What the hell was going on? I was an emotional wreck[…]
2021, Alison Craig, Blue Skies at the Birdie and Bramble:
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(colloquial) To smack; to hit
'You snottered a sergeant, didn't you? My oh my! Clouting a police sergeant is something I've dreamed about for years.'
2013, Maurice Procter, Devil's Due:
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