booger
nounEtymology From boogie board + -er.
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Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Surfing Derogatory, Mildly, Slang A bodyboarder.
- Watch the local boogers charge it!
booger
nounUS /ˈbʊɡɚ/ · UK /ˈbʊɡə/
Etymology Alteration of the English dialectal words buggard (bug + -ard), boggart or boggard. Compare bogey. Compare also Alemannic German Naaseböög (“booger”).
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Canada, Philippines, US, Slang A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
- Mama says you mustn't pick boogers out of your nose with your fingers; you must use your handkerchief.1948, Publication of the American Dialect Society, page 16:
- Now in the halls of the necro lord / Flash of fear when he sees my sword / Raped his woman, smoked his bone / Leave a booger underneath his throne!2006, Strapping Young Lad, “Far Beyond Metal”, in The New Black:
- The latter is discovered by Caesar, Maurice, and their compadres living in a crumbling, snow-packed ski lodge, its antler chandeliers hung with boogers of ice in a mockery of humanity’s pretensions of alpha-predator-hood.2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetskyg, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:
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US A monster, a bogey.
- Derived terms
- bed booger, boogerball, booger brain, booger off, booger sandwich, booger sugar, booger up, eye booger