booger
noun/ˈbʊɡɚ/US/ˈbʊɡə/UK
Etymology
Alteration of the English dialectal words buggard (bug + -ard), boggart or boggard. Compare bogey. Compare also Alemannic German Naaseböög (“booger”).
Definitions
A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
- Mama says you mustn't pick boogers out of your nose with your fingers; you must use your handkerchief.
- Now in the halls of the necro lord / Flash of fear when he sees my sword / Raped his woman, smoked his bone / Leave a booger underneath his throne!
Something suggestive of this material.
- The latter is discovered by Caesar, Maurice, and their compadres living in a crumbling, snow-packed ski lodge, its antler chandeliers hung with boogers of ice in a mockery of humanity’s pretensions of alpha-predator-hood.
A thing
A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
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A monster, a bogey.
A bodyboarder.
- Watch the local boogers charge it!
A performer of the booger dance.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for booger. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA