Other words for "booger"

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I am on a mystical quest to find a less dated synonym for booger, that doesn't sound as scientific as mucous.

What do ya'll have? I was surprised to find that there is no formal dictionary word for "booger". Either that or my vocabulary is sadly lacking. Help?
 

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Nose goblins?
 

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depending on your level of familiarity with it, "boog" or "boogie" might be appropriate.

in my experience, it depends on the booger.
 

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Hey, I'm using that word in my book. In fact, used it a couple of times....lol...booger is just a really great word.
 

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Substitute Haggis or Robeiae; either should be acceptable.


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Oh. You don't mean here on AW. How about nostril candy?
 

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You guys are awesome! Keep 'em coming!

In our house we call them mocos.

The only problem with boogers is they are too hilarious. I'm trying to write a scene where the protag is hiding in fear under a desk, and she notices a pretty hefty dried booger deposit on the underside of the desk near her head. The word booger feels kind of jarring, ha ha. Oh well.

My other issue is booger seems to be solid modern American slang. What did they call them during the revolutionary war? What do Australians call them? Victorians? I refuse to believe that only people in our modern times have bothered naming such an awesome...object?

I'm writing fantasy, maybe it's just time to make up some nifty word combo fitting for their world (something along the lines of nose goblins).

Nostril candy, ah ha ha ha!
 

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My daughter (3yo) calls them "nosies." If she has a runny nose she says "my nose is nosey."

When I was young I called them snotties. I still can't use the term "snot" or "booger."
 

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Don't the Brits call them "Bogies" or "bogeys"? In the first HP movie, when Harry pulls his wand out of the troll's nose, Ron says something like, "Eww, troll bogies."

Just checked that scene in my (American) copy of the book, and it's spelled "boogers".


Also, just stumbled across this one:
Nose wax.
 

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Please don't call them Haggis - its really a food (ok I wouldn't eat it but it really is a food)
My English hubby calls them "snotters" and my Auntie calls them "nose gems"
I'm going to go vomit now.
 
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depending on your level of familiarity with it, "boog" or "boogie" might be appropriate.

in my experience, it depends on the booger.
As a Brit who's more familiar with the noun 'bogey', I'm interested to know your preference between slimey rollers and crusty flickers, Haskins?
 

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When you wipe them on your pants leg, they become trouser-grout.

(not really; I'm just trying to coin a phrase)
 

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What we need now is to discuss the difference between gobbing, flobbing and flegging.
 

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I can confirm that Brits call them bogeys
North of the border, they're snorters.

A bogey is a racing cart (home-made with old pram wheels in the "Oor Willie" tradition), and kids shout "Game's a bogey!" whenever a game is rendered invalid by blatant rule-breaking, thus recalling participants for rule discussion and game restart.

-Derek