different between snot vs broccoli

English

Etymology

From Middle English snot, snotte, from Old English ?esnot, *snott, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz (“nasal mucus”), from the same base as snout. Related also to snite.

Cognate with North Frisian snot (“snot”), Saterland Frisian Snotte (“snot”), West Frisian snotte (“snot”), Dutch snot (“snot”), German Low German Snött (“snot”), dialectal German Schnutz (“snot”), Danish snot (“snot”), Norwegian snott (“snot”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sn?t, IPA^(key): /sn?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

snot (countable and uncountable, plural snots)

1. (informal, uncountable) Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
   • c.1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys

     Once, I remember, the little fair-haired boy had a choking fit at dinner, and a stream of snot ran out of his nose on to his plate in a way horrible to see.

2. (slang, countable) A contemptible child.
   • 2010, Ernest L. Rhodes, A Coal Miner's Family at Mooseheart (page 19)

     With no warning a gang of little snots — none larger or older than I was — threw me to the ground, pulled my knickers below my knees — without any explanation, and allowed me to get up.

3. (slang, obsolete) A mean fellow.

Synonyms

• booger (US) (but note this noun is countable)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

snot (third-person singular simple present snots, present participle snotting, simple past and past participle snotted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).
2. (intransitive) To sniff or snivel; to produce snot, to have a runny nose.
   • 2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury 2015, p. 148:

     I was snotting all into my mouth and having to eat it, silently shuddering.

Translations

Anagrams

• NOTs, SOTN, Ston, TNOs, nots, onst, tons

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German snotte

Noun

snot n (definite singular snottet) (uncountable)

1. snot (nasal mucus) (informal in English, not in Danish)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch snotte, from Old Dutch *snotto, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn?t/
• Hyphenation: snot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

snot n (uncountable)

1. snot, nasal mucus

Derived terms

• snotaap
• snotneus

Anagrams

• Sont

Middle English

Alternative forms

• snotte, snott, snothe

Etymology

From Old English ?esnot, *snott, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn?t(?)/

Noun

snot (uncountable) (rare)

1. Snot, mucus (matter accreting in the nose)
2. The remnants of a burnt and expired candle wick.

Descendants

• English: snot
• Scots: snot

References

• “snotte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-26.

English

Alternative forms

• broccolo (rare)
• brocoli (archaic)

Etymology

1699, Italian broccoli, plural of broccolo (“cabbage sprout, head”), diminutive of brocco (“shoot, sprout”) (which is also the origin of brocade), from Latin broccus (“pointed, sharp, projecting; buck-toothed”), possibly of Gaulish origin, related to Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) or Proto-Celtic *brozdos (“tip, point”) (compare Scottish Gaelic brog (“pointed instrument, awl”), Welsh procio (“thrust, poke”), Old English brord (“point, spike”)). More at brochure, brad.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??.k?.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??.k?.li/, /?b??k.li/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?b??.k?.li/

Noun

broccoli (countable and uncountable, plural broccolis or broccoli)

1. A plant, Brassica oleracea var. italica, of the cabbage family, Brassicaceae; especially, the tree-shaped flower and stalk that are eaten as a vegetable.

   Hyponym: (UK) Calabrese

   • 2010, Sven Wombwell, Allotment Gardening For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (?ISBN), Growing Oriental Leaf Vegetables:

     You can also get oriental broccolis such as kailaan and nabana, which are easy to grow and really tasty.

   • 2013, Anselm Anyoha, MD, How Broccoli-Head Lost Thirty Pounds: A Handbook for Healthy Living, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 83:

     Examples of leafy vegetables are broccoli, spinach, celery, and chicory.

2. (US, slang) Marijuana.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana

Derived terms

• broccoflower
• broccoloid

Related terms

• brocade

Translations

Noun

broccoli

1. plural of broccolo

References

Further reading

• broccoli on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• broccoli on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Danish

Etymology

From the plural of Italian broccolo.

Noun

broccoli c (singular definite broccolien, plural indefinite broccoli)

1. broccoli

Inflection

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?br?k.?ko.li], /?br?kkoli/

Noun

broccoli m

1. plural of broccolo