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Snot-nosed

adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Young and arrogant or conceited. derogatory, idiomatic, slang

    "“When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825,” LePage said, according to the Press Herald."

Adjective
  1. 1
    dirty with nasal discharge wordnet
  2. 2
    (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant wordnet

Etymology

From snot + nosed; evoking a certain stereotype of conceited youth as suffering upper respiratory ailments that result in mucus-filled noses and nasal voices.

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