booger
Americannoun
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boogers
plural
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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
Apart from booger eating being disgusting, it means ingesting all those inhaled mucus bound germs, toxic metals and environmental contaminants discussed earlier.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2022
"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
Lawmakers pitched a booger, of course, and bow-tie wearing Tony Williams was given control of the city’s finances, and eventually became a two-term mayor.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 11, 2019
Rowdy must have thought the truck was a booger and he didn’t want it messing around our home.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
“Keep the boogers moving, keep the tears moving, go do something of service. If you can’t be helped, then go help somebody.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
She checks on the frogs in the fish tank — a crowd favorite — and makes sure her house is spotless; she’s recently had a problem with boogers smeared on the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
I had boogers, that kind of crying nobody's supposed to see.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2021
“Let me just get your boogers out,” they might say, swab in hand.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2021
Every time he wiped away the tears and the little mustache of boogers on Byron’s Up Dad couldn’t help laughing, until a little river of tears was coming out of his eyes too.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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