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booger

booger

28 8.0
A small piece of dried mucus inside the nose
  • noun
  • /ˈbʊɡər/
  • Informal
translation icon : moco
  • You got a huge booger hanging out of your nose.
  • eat boogers
  • booger in your nose
  • wiped away a booger

You have a big booger hanging out.

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Examples

  • There was a big booger stuck to the inside of his nose.

  • You have a big booger hanging out.

  • Yes, There is a booger on my face.

  • Here, you have a booger.

  • Link tries to tell Rhett he has a booger without saying it.

  • Eating your own boogers is gross, but it might be smart.

  • I got a booger hanging out of my nose, paisan?

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Nasty dark green boogers come out of his nose.

    Blog text (7)
  • Please, no boogers on the blazer.

  • They look more like boogers than earwax, don't they?

Synonyms

snot
vsbooger
30 6.3

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

is a single dried piece not general wet or abundant nasal mucus
bogey
vsbooger
  • UK
1 6.0

A small dried piece of mucus inside the nose

is an informal word for that same dried nasal piece

Idioms

To behave in a silly and immature way

Compounds

booger brain
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who acts silly, said as a playful insult

9.9

A joking name for a meal that looks disgusting

Surface Forms

booger singular
boogers plural

Etymology

Booger for the dried stuff in your nose likely comes from the same old word bogey or from playful American talk, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of it as a 'little monster' hiding in your nose that you pull out because it is small and unpleasant.