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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Noun Inflected Forms
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
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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
“It’s worse than the grossest booger you’ve ever seen,” Dr. Choy said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
A boy puts his hand on another kid’s booger and sees boys sitting on toilets at school.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021
"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
Which was how she knew she wasn't a booger.
From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds
Whether you eat your boogers or wipe them on things I end up touching, it is an indisputably unsanitary act and unacceptable in every culture on Earth.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2023
But should we really be doing it — and what should we do with our boogers?
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2022
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
“Let me just get your boogers out,” they might say, swab in hand.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2021
“Her side of the family produces Grade-A, government-inspected boogers, or so she thinks.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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