| Definitions | noun
- A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
- (surfing slang, mildly derogatory) bodyboarder
- Watch the local boogers charge it — wannasurf.com http://www.wannasurf.com/spot/Australia_Pacific/Australia_NSW/North/bullies/
- (slang) A thing; especially a problematic or difficult thing.
Etymology: The bodyboarder sense is from boogie board.The etymology of the word booger baffles scholars. Since it has always been considered vulgar or at the very least childish, it has been used in few written sources. Furthermore, the earliest usage of the word is as an alternate spelling of the vulgarism bugger.The first use of the word booger, meaning a ghost, appeared in print in the United States was by Georgia humorist Bill Arp, who published Bill Arp, so called : a sideshow of the Southern side of the war in 1866."Booger", in this context, eventually segued to "boogey" or "bogey" (as in the term boogeyman) and has ever since been used as a catch-all term for an unseen and indistinct monster who creates irrational psychosomatic fear in individuals (usually children) through his supposedly elusive nature (hiding under beds, in closets, etc.)Booger was first said to be slang for "dried mucus" in the 1891 Dialect Notes. Its appearance in slang dictionaries indicates that it had probably been used for some time in the United States before the 1890s.
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