"boogobs" query

[Jesse T Sheidlower]

>    I've come across a term "boogobs" that I had never heard  or seen before
> and which does not appear in  Jonathan Lighter's  _Historical Dictionary of
> American Slang_.  Is anyone familiar with  the term, and what would its
> etymology be?

>      "Now Dick, there's nothing wrong with that line--it's real good, pithy
> even.  Hell's bells, can't go wrong quoting from 'Apollo 13,'  but I know a
> more propitious quote about failure.  Not that your quote didn't do boogobs
> toward raising $2.1 million that night.  ..."

I've never seen it before, but I assume it's a blend of _bookoo_
(< F _beaucoup_) and _gobs._

Jesse Sheidlower
<jester at panix.com>