booger
Americannoun
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Informal. any person or thing.
That shark was a mean-looking booger. Paddle the little booger and send him home.
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Slang. a piece of dried mucus in or from the nose.
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Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. any ghost, hobgoblin, or other frightening apparition.
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Etymology
Origin of booger
1865–70; perhaps variant of British dialect boggard goblin, bogy; in senses of booger defs. 1, 2 conflated with bugger 1
Example Sentences
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When one coral Furby managed to understand that I was there, it asked if it had a booger, told me it would become “president of the moon,” and sang me a generic Auto-Tuned song.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2023
"In the studio, all together, sweaty, smelly, dusty, picking a booger, whatever, singing when it was my turn, that sort of thing for six, eight weeks. That's gruelling."
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2019
In fact, I told them, I only came up with the booger story after asking myself: What if a family picked their noses so much that they create a monstrous booger?
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2017
“I have never eaten a booger in my entire life,” Harbaugh insisted.
From Washington Times • Sep. 16, 2016
"I mean, what was that thing Mr. Fantana was talking about in class today? The thing he pulled up the picture of? I mean, it kinda looked like a booger."
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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