a. Now dial. [Cf. prec.] Having the nose running or dirty with snot; also, mean, paltry, contemptible.
1610. Selden, English Janus, Pref. 25. Let snotty nosed Fellows … approve what I write, or let them flout and fleer.
1712. Arbuthnot, John Bull, I. xv. My Husband took him in, a dirty, snotty-nosed Boy.
1721. Bailey, Snivelling, peaking, snotty-nosed, childish.
1840. The Old Soldier (Jackson, MS), 2/1. It is said the he styled the Editors, very eloquently, a parcel of ‘d—d little snotty-nosed shirt-tail boys,’ &c.
1886. Elworthy, W. Somerset Word-bk., 690. A snotty-nosed boy.
1894. J. Hartley, Clock Alm., 2 (E.D.D.). Snotty-noased lads ’at aw remember.
