BOOGER Definition & Meaning

booger

[ boog-er ]

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noun

Informal. any person or thing:
That shark was a mean-looking booger. Paddle the little booger and send him home.
Slang. a piece of dried mucus in or from the nose.
bogeyman.
Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. any ghost, hobgoblin, or other frightening apparition.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

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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“Keep the boogers moving, keep the tears moving, go do something of service. If you can’t be helped, then go help somebody.”

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“So, fitting I would start this job on your first birthday. I love you, little booger.”

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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.

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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.

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“I get nervous. What if she smells me and I smell bad? What if I have a booger?”

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