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snotty

adjective, noun

snotty is spelled S-N-O-T-T-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,949th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, snotty means “Running or dirtied with mucus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in snotty?

Letters6: S-N-O-T-T-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 49,949th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is snotty?

Snotty appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,949th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce snotty?

  • Australia

Snotty has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-snotty.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of snotty

  • snottier comparative
  • snottiest superlative
  • snottie
  • snotties plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does snotty mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Running or dirtied with mucus.

  2. 2

    Resembling or characteristic of mucus, especially in texture.

  3. 3

    informalIll-tempered or impertinent in an arrogant, conceited manner.

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaslangThe lion's mane jellyfish, which secretes a mucus that can foul fishing nets.

  2. 2

    slangA midshipman.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Snotty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmorveux (dirtied with snot), impertinent (ill-tempered, impertinent)
Germanrotzig (dirtied with snot), patzig, rotznäsig (ill-tempered, impertinent)
Portugueseranhoso, ranhento (dirtied with snot)
Spanishmocoso (dirtied with snot), de mal carácter, de mal temperamento, impertinente (ill-tempered, impertinent)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does snotty come from?

From snot + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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