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.
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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“Space Babies,” the first of two episodes premiering Friday, features talking infants in an abandoned space station and is powered by booger and fart jokes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2024
“It’s worse than the grossest booger you’ve ever seen,” Dr. Choy said.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 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
“I have never eaten a booger in my entire life,” Harbaugh insisted.
From Washington Times • Sep. 16, 2016
Which was how she knew she wasn't a booger.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
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