Silly question of the day

[Dax]

How did the things that come from our noses...come to be called boogies? or booger...or other such names...

What other names do you have and how did it get this name?

 

[bumcat]

Now that's a mind boggling bugar of a question...

 

[Wishydoo]

This question is snot one I want to answer.

 

[SuiteDisney]

How do you make a hanky dance?

Put a little boogie into it!

 

[TEENEE]

Dax, you sure picked a winner with this thread.

 

[Steve H.]

From the Oxford Unabridged Dictionary...

Booger, n.


1) Informal. Any person or thing: That shark was a mean-looking booger. Paddle the little booger and send him home.

2) Slang. A piece of dried mucus in or from the nose.

[ 1865-70; perhaps variation of British dialect boggard goblin, bogy; in sense of definitions 1 and 2 conflated with BUGGER