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8 wordies list
booger |
(n): an imaginary monster used to frighten children
(n): an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
(n): dried nasal mucus
(n): protective secretion of the mucus membranes; in the gut it lubricates the passage of food and protects the epithelial cells; in the nose and throat and lungs it can make it difficult for bacteria to penetrate the body through the epithelium
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ha ha haha!!
wait... what page was that conversation on? Oh yeah--jeez.
Does it wear spats?
I grew up with bogie, too, but I prefer 'booger' now because it sounds like a tiny sentient creature.
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.
In the plotline of WKRP in Cincinnati it was the word that got Dr. Johnny Fever fired from his previous gig.
Interesting fact: Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes claimed to the be the first cartoonist to use this word in a cartoon strip.