"Beck Dissects Huckabee's Curious, Mysterious 'Bo" oger Bears' | The Blaze

[victor steinbok]

Maybe it was derived in the opposite direction ;-)

VS-)

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

>
> OED has (US regional) "booger" meaning 'a menacing supernatural
> creature; a goblin, bogy, or ghost' from 1827, and "boogerman" (same)
> from 1847.
>
> --bgz
>
> --
> Ben Zimmer

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