Meaning

(nautical) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat..

Definitions by Sense

1. (nautical) A rope going over a yardarm, used to bend a tripping line to, in sending down topgallant and royal yards in vessels of war; also, the short line supporting the heel of the sprit in a small boat.
2. (intransitive) To snivel; to cry or whine.
3. (colloquial) To smack; to hit
4. The wattles of a turkeycock.
5. (Scotland) Snot; mucus.
6. (UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
7. (UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket who steals handkerchiefs.

Example Sentences

Araund the woman her lile ans ſprawl'd on the hearth, ſome, whiting ſpeals, ſome, ſnottering and crying, and ya ruddy cheek'd lad threw on a bullen to make a loww, for its mother to find her loup.

What signified his bringing a woman here to snotter and snivel, and bather their Lordships?

'Aaaaaah. and that's another thing, I want a home,' I snottered. What the hell was going on? I was an emotional wreck[…]

'You snottered a sergeant, didn't you? My oh my! Clouting a police sergeant is something I've dreamed about for years.'

We had our regular rendezvous, […] where we refreshed ourselves with meat and drink, sung obscene and abominable songs […], instructed the younger members systematically in prigging (stealing,) concerted robberies, washed and valued "snotters" (handkerchiefs,) and disposed of them, besides the other practices of a nefarious and abandoned fraternity.

You're barely breaking even with the snotters stealing handkerchiefs in the square.

Word Forms

• snotters
• snouter
• snottering
• snottered

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Use snotter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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