"snottery" meaning in English

See snottery in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more snottery [comparative], most snottery [superlative]
Etymology: Compare snotty. Head templates: {{en-adj}} snottery (comparative more snottery, superlative most snottery)
  1. Full of snot or phlegm; snotty.
    Sense id: en-snottery-en-adj-IcWYRzYa Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 82 8 3 6 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 80 7 3 6 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 87 4 3 3 3
  2. Resembling or characteristic of snot.
    Sense id: en-snottery-en-adj-6TCEZQEh
  3. Presumptuous and demanding.
    Sense id: en-snottery-en-adj-3AMytAY1

Noun

Forms: snotteries [plural]
Etymology: Compare snotty. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} snottery (countable and uncountable, plural snotteries)
  1. (rare) Abomination; filth. Tags: countable, rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-snottery-en-noun-scGiXnV6
  2. Snobbishness Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-snottery-en-noun-zxGjCBvK

Inflected forms

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          "text": "\"You are in an unco' hurry,\" she replied, getting nettled, as she filled a glass. \"It doesna' do to be so snottery as a' that.\"",
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          "ref": "1995, Jude Collins, Booing the Bishop and Other Stories, page 36:",
          "text": "She still thought that, in a way, but she'd tell me in any case. I was, she explained, a snottery, two-faced wee shite.",
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          "text": "[T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of Senſe vvould crack / The ſinevves of my Patience.",
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          "text": "Just you be careful, my girl, not to pick up a lotta snottery when you're over there among all them dudes. You got to keep your feet on the ground, and not get so's we can't understand a word you say.",
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          "text": "He felt shock waves rumble through as he recognized his Sunday school snottery—how he thought he was better than other people, how he had a mighty swirly potty mouth, how at home he'd been on a six-month rampage about homework and chores, and how his sneaking out of the house had betrayed his parents.",
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