Beck Dissects Huckabee's Curious, Mysterious 'Booger Bears' | The Blaze (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> I am assuming "booger-bear" is an eggcornish variant of "bugbear".

I have heard, and probably used, "booger-bear" in just such a manner.
Doesn't sound strange to me (raised TN, live in north AL, so it may be a
Southern thing).

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