boogie n.1
(US) a piece of nasal mucus.
![]() | DN I 18: Boogie [...] ball of mucus in the nose. | |
![]() | New Dict. Americanisms. | |
![]() | Big Rumble 108: Who needs his nose boogies? | |
![]() | Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 19: BOOGIE — Mucus that is picked from the nose in a semi hard form, rolled into a ball and sometimes flicked at a passer by. | |
![]() | Homicide (1993) 570: ‘Snot Boogie?’ [...] ‘Yeah [...] that’s what his friends called him.’. | |
![]() | Spidertown (1994) 137: ‘I just needed to hear it once,’ she said, wiping her face with his comforter. ‘Don’t get boogies on my sheet.’. |
In compounds
(Aus.) the nose.
![]() | Dict. Aus. Swearing & Sex Sayings 20: BOOGIE TRAP — The nose,. |