Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bogeyman.
- n. Slang Dried nasal mucus.
- n. Slang An item that is unnamed or unnameable: "It's . . . like a pop-top . . . one of those sharp little boogers you pull off the beer cans” ( Hunter S. Thompson).
- n. Slang A worthless, despicable person.
- n. Slang A person; a fellow.
Wiktionary
- n. US A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
- n. US, slang A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
- n. surfing, slang, mildly derogatory bodyboarder
WordNet 3.0
- n. an imaginary monster used to frighten children
- n. dried nasal mucus
Etymologies
- From boogie board. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She asked in a tone that was roughly equal the one she'd likely use to ask, "So, were you EVER planning on wiping that booger from the middle of your forehead?”
“If your response to "You have a booger" is "Oh, that’s nice, dear," then I’ll know miscommunication has occurred!”
“I said when I went into the theater that I wouldn't be satisfied unless this booger was the worst thing I'd seen since Bloodrayne, and I was disappointed on that count.”
“How many of you guys and gals will admit to having felt a "booger"?”
“In the south we call something ghostly or unexplainable a "booger".”
“All the judges thought Fabio's "booger" was too meatball-y and meatloaf-y, not burger-y enough.”
The Washington Post: Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 9: Fondue and Fallon
“I double-hate Fabio's dish because he keeps calling it a "booger" in his accent, which seems to be even more exaggerated than it was on his first season on the show, just sayin'.”
The Washington Post: Top Chef All-Stars Ep. 9: Fondue and Fallon
“So my primary example of substitution is using the word "booger" instead of "bugger".”
“It might also work for folks who ordinarily dislike raisins-especially those who - if you will excuse me-go in for "booger" comparisons.”
“(Actually, while "booger" has a widely-understood meaning, an informal survey of Southern political writers revealed complete puzzlement over "hanks," although one thought it might be a bastardization of "haints," or ghosts.)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘booger’.
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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Cepstrums
to cepstrumize a word is to reverse its 1st 4 characters in the way that "cepstrum" was derived from "spectrum" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum...
acedy, adustion, sudation, aedility, ideality, agentive, negative, agral, argal, agrestic, ergastic, alerce and 202 more...
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MANY A WORD!
This is just a list, right, that I'm gonna, like, fill with words, that, like, are every word that I can, like, think of with, ahhmm, my brain.
and, able, art, ass, algebra, amp, ankle, booze, bong, aura, bling, bright and 134 more...
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Wishy-Washy-Wordie
learn something new or stump a friend -
booger, digger, facetious, ostentatious, pretentious, lush, lumpy, grumpy, avatar, twit, twitter
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sarahochap1
english 7- summer school
apposite, jubilant, supplication, penchant, kiosk, apprehensive, ecology, insular, misnomer, culinary, rhetorical, awry and 13 more...
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funny
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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Ugliest Words Ever
words that I refuse to say out loud.
tuna, uranus, bulbous, vaginal, rectum, cunnilingus, flatulance, pedagogy, blooper, booger, beefy, polyp and 116 more...
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The List Of Words That Rewrote The Hi...
Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
flabergasted, smash, wang, wordie, drum, rumplestiltskin, resistance, watt, hindu, universal serial bus, bearing, nematode and 138 more...
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These Words Crack Me Up
caucus, gerrymandering, pigeonhole, squad, madrigal, poo, beaker, egress, booger, pander, ugly, bat and 1 more...
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mattsimoto's list
My words
tarnation, quizzical, agrarian, bucolic, vernal, diurnal, cartesian, solecism, robosexual, procurator fiscal, emesis, scapulomancy and 10 more...
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Aminals
My pets' names and nicknames past and present
squiggy, squitler, squigaboo, tai quob kabob, booger, boogie, bogart, furguson, furgie, two berets, walter snarfer, gizmo and 75 more...
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Words Kristine hates
I gotta remember these.
moist, date, baste, *anything in betw..., fart, barf, puke, fingerbanging, kris, burp, loin, pregnant and 1 more...
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Dewdew Drops
Human body sheddings, secretions, and offscum. Sometimes we gotta exuviate!
off the gound is a list of eye booger words made by trivet.dandruff, scurf, pityriasis capitis, furfuration, hair, saliva, salivation, expectoration, gleeking, halitosis, carbon dioxide, tears and 85 more...
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rocktopus's list
lea, yes, bung, artichoke, bleb, snark, fleer, serendipity, civil twilight, neap tide, seapink, seagrape and 5 more...
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expectorant words
Inspired by kad...
loogie, hock, phlegm, booger, mucus, secretion, snot, spit, drool, dribble, cough, hack and 2 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for booger.
arseholejnr wow so much talk for so much snot i meen i was a liitle woried wen i saw this Aug 28, 2009
chained_bear ha ha haha!!
wait... what page was that conversation on? Oh yeah--jeez. Oct 24, 2007
trivet Does it wear spats? Oct 24, 2007
yarb I grew up with bogie, too, but I prefer 'booger' now because it sounds like a tiny sentient creature. Oct 24, 2007
colleen My mother is Irish and doesn't say booger, she says bogie; when I was small and picked up this word at school (as an insult) she thought I was calling my brother a bugger instead of a snot, and I got quite a hiding. Oct 24, 2007
jeff In the plotline of WKRP in Cincinnati it was the word that got Dr. Johnny Fever fired from his previous gig. Oct 24, 2007
oroboros Interesting fact: Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes claimed to the be the first cartoonist to use this word in a cartoon strip. Dec 12, 2006