"Adult Swim"

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Boogie" was the only mucus-related term my grandmother used.

It goes without saying that pot-related "doober" is in HDAS from 1973.

Oddly, however, it is also listed as "a piece of excrement."

JL

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:56 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > "doober" in place of "doobie"
> > spark up a doober
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> > but
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> > "boogie" in place of "booger"
> > a boogie in my nose
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> Law of Conservation of Suffixes?  Actually, "boogie" was the the standard
> local term when I was growing up.  I'm not familiar with "doober" for
> "doobie", but it strikes me as a plausible affectionate diminutive, maybe
> related to the -er used for guy-to-guy nicknames (at least in buddy movies).
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> LH
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