booger

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

The dried mucus sense came from the alteration of English dialect buggard, boggart, from bug + ard.

Now the bodyboarder sense is from boogie board.

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

Singular
booger

Plural
boogers

booger (plural boogers)

  1. (US) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
  2. (surfing, slang, mildly derogatory) bodyboarder
    Watch the local boogers charge it — wannasurf.com [1]
  3. (US, slang) A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.

[edit] Synonyms

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Translations

[edit] Anagrams

In other languages