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bogey

1 6.0

A small dried piece of mucus inside the nose

noun
/ˈboʊɡi/

: moco seco

I haven't got a bogey on my nose, have I?

Examples

She removed the bogey from her nostril with a tissue.
Then we've also got a little scalp brush so we can scrub the bogey out of our scalps.
You have a bogey in your nose.
I haven't got a bogey on my nose, have I?

Synonyms

snot

vsbogey

30 6.3

Thick wet stuff that comes from the nose when you have a cold

means a single small dried internal piece rather than general mucus

booger

vsbogey

Informal

28 8.0

A small piece of dried mucus inside the nose

is the neutral or clinical term for the same dried nasal piece

Compounds

double-bogey

Jargon

2 8.0

A golf score two strokes above par for a hole

to double bogey

Jargon

1 6.9

To score two strokes more than the hole's par in golf

Surface Forms

bogey singular

bogeys plural

Etymology

Bogey for a dried bit of nose mucus probably comes from the same old idea of bogey as a small ugly thing, so a helpful way to remember it is to think of a bogey in the nose as a little, unpleasant bit.