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▪ I. booger, n.1 colloq. (now chiefly U.S.).
Brit. |ˈbʊgə|, U.S. |ˈbʊgər|
Forms: 17– booger, 18– boogar
[Probably a variant or euphemistic alteration of bugger n.1]
A worthless or despicable man; (also in weakened use) a fellow, a chap; a mischievous child, a rascal, a scamp. Chiefly with modifying word. Cf. bugger n.1 2b.
1756R. Ashton Battle of Aughrim i. i. 20, I will..bear my Troops away, Confound the Booger e're I do retire, And set Olympus on a flame of Fire. 1811in F. W. Howay Voy. New Hazard to N.W. Coast (1938) 144 He called us thieves, country boogars, infernal scoundrels. 1873C. H. Smith Bill Arp's Peace Papers 14 The great Amerikan guvernment sees him and skorns him, and ses ‘support yerself’, you dirty booger. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling 420 If I was a scawny little big-eyed booger like you, I'd stay home. 1989R. Hansen Nebraska Stories 133 You have to watch the little booger every second because she'll put in her mouth what most people wouldn't step on. 2003G. Keillor Love Me (2004) xiv. 129, I went to clean out Mr. Hoffstadter's apartment today, having succeeded in putting the old booger into a nursing home.
▪ II. booger, n.2
Brit. |ˈbuːgə|, |ˈbʊgə|, U.S. |ˈbʊgər|
Forms: 18 bugger, 18– booger
[Perhaps originally a variant or alteration of boggard n.1 or buggard n., although compare bogy n.1, bogle n., bug n.1, bugan n., bucca n., bugaboo n.
Eng. Dial. Dict. (1908) s.v. Bugger records use in the sense ‘a hobgoblin, puck, ghost’ from Gloucestershire.
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1. U.S. regional. A menacing supernatural creature; a goblin, bogy, or ghost.
Chiefly used in speech to children, often as a frightening deterrent to bad behaviour.
1827Christian Intelligencer & Eastern Chron. 10 Aug. 126/1 Mrs. Johnson..seized two of her little ones violently..and shut them down cellar, where she said the ‘booger’ was. 1866C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 78 They can't sleep for imagining..that their bones are..to rot in some thicket, far, far away, where ghosts and boogers go dodging around. 1917Lincoln (Nebraska) Sunday Star 14 Jan. (Society & Fashion section) 6/7 Ghosts and powers of darkness and black things and boogers and goberlins that'll git you ef—you—don't—watch out. 1971Foxfire Spring–Summer 28 My grandmother always used the times to the best advantage by telling ghost stories—or ‘booger’ tales. 2000D. Ing Loose Cannon 80 He would fumble to his booger-zapper..and let fly under his bed with a cat-piss cocktail potent enough to have sent any self-respecting booger lurching toward some other kid's bed.
2. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.). A piece of dried nasal mucus; = bogy n.1 5.
1891Dial. Notes 1 214 [A ball of mucus in the nose is] Called bugger in the South, the u sounded like [ʊ]. 1892Dial. Notes 1 235 Booger..mucus in nose. 1951T. Roethke Praise to End! i. 22 Put your finger in your face, And there will be a booger. 1968L. J. Davis Whence All had Fled 164 Complete strangers looked at him like he had a disgusting booger hanging from his nose. 1984L. Rooke Bolt White Cloth 27 He had a booger hanging from his nose and snot smeared across his cheek. 1999D. King Boxy an Star (2000) 230 Pickin sleepymen out your eyes an boogers out your nozzle.
Compounds. boogerman n. U.S. regional = sense 1; cf. bogy-man at bogy n.1 7.
1847Littell's Living Age 27 Nov. 413/1 They had heard him scream ‘the *booger man has got me,’ but thought nothing of it. 1937Z. N. Hurston Their Eyes were watching God xiv. 198 De boogerman liable tuh tote yuh off whilst Ah'm gone. 1999M. H. Wright Sounds like Home iii. 38 Then I shot past them, running as though the boogerman was after me. |