? Obs. [See prec.] One whose nose is dirty with snot; hence, a paltry, mean or contemptible fellow.
1602. Dekker, Honest Whore, I. II. i. (1605), D j a. Hang him Mole-catcher, its the dreamingst snotty-nose.
1614. B. Jonson, Barth. Fair, II. v. (1631), 26. Dos’t so, snotty nose? good Lord! are you sniueling?
1712. Odes of Horace, V. 12/2. I own he is no Snotty-Nose.
b. attrib. or as adj. Snotty-nosed.
1622. Massinger & Decker, Virg. Martyr, II. i. Our puling snotty-nose Lady sent me out likewise with a purse of mony, to releeue and release prisoners.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pickle, ii. 14. A snotty-nose boy, whom I myself have ordered to the gun, for stealing eggs out of the hen-coops!
