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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Raised NYC, lived E Tenn. Unfamiliar to me but entirely plausible.

Unlike "Substitute it with."

JL




On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:

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