different between snot vs boogie

English

Etymology

From Middle English snot, snotte, from Old English ?esnot, *snott, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz (“nasal mucus”), from the same base as snout. Related also to snite.

Cognate with North Frisian snot (“snot”), Saterland Frisian Snotte (“snot”), West Frisian snotte (“snot”), Dutch snot (“snot”), German Low German Snött (“snot”), dialectal German Schnutz (“snot”), Danish snot (“snot”), Norwegian snott (“snot”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: sn?t, IPA^(key): /sn?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

snot (countable and uncountable, plural snots)

1. (informal, uncountable) Mucus, especially mucus from the nose.
   • c.1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys

     Once, I remember, the little fair-haired boy had a choking fit at dinner, and a stream of snot ran out of his nose on to his plate in a way horrible to see.

2. (slang, countable) A contemptible child.
   • 2010, Ernest L. Rhodes, A Coal Miner's Family at Mooseheart (page 19)

     With no warning a gang of little snots — none larger or older than I was — threw me to the ground, pulled my knickers below my knees — without any explanation, and allowed me to get up.

3. (slang, obsolete) A mean fellow.

Synonyms

• booger (US) (but note this noun is countable)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

snot (third-person singular simple present snots, present participle snotting, simple past and past participle snotted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To blow, wipe, or clear (the nose).
2. (intransitive) To sniff or snivel; to produce snot, to have a runny nose.
   • 2014, Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl, Ebury 2015, p. 148:

     I was snotting all into my mouth and having to eat it, silently shuddering.

Translations

Anagrams

• NOTs, SOTN, Ston, TNOs, nots, onst, tons

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German snotte

Noun

snot n (definite singular snottet) (uncountable)

1. snot (nasal mucus) (informal in English, not in Danish)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch snotte, from Old Dutch *snotto, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn?t/
• Hyphenation: snot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

snot n (uncountable)

1. snot, nasal mucus

Derived terms

• snotaap
• snotneus

Anagrams

• Sont

Middle English

Alternative forms

• snotte, snott, snothe

Etymology

From Old English ?esnot, *snott, from Proto-Germanic *snuttuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn?t(?)/

Noun

snot (uncountable) (rare)

1. Snot, mucus (matter accreting in the nose)
2. The remnants of a burnt and expired candle wick.

Descendants

• English: snot
• Scots: snot

References

• “snotte, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-26.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu??i/, /?b??i/
• Rhymes: -u??i, -??i

Noun

boogie (plural boogies)

1. (informal) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.

   Synonym: booger

2. (slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
   • 1966 Liberation: An Independent Monthly, Volumes 11-12, page 66

     in front of the White House during the crisis over admission of James Meredith to the Univeristy of Mississippi, we were counterpicketed by five members of the American Nazi Party. One of them carried two placards: one saying "Who Needs Niggers?" and the other "Back to the Trees, Boogies!" Finally a passerby, incensed by the sight of the Stars-and-Stripes being carried alongside the Nazi Swastika, assaulted one of the Nazis

3. (informal) Dancing usually prominently exhibiting movements of the buttocks.
4. (skydiving, informal) A large, organised skydiving event.

Derived terms

• boogie board
• boogie box
• boogie-woogie
• boogie down

Translations

Verb

boogie (third-person singular simple present boogies, present participle boogying or boogieing, simple past and past participle boogied)

1. (intransitive) To dance a boogie.
2. (intransitive, informal) To move, walk, leave, exit.

Spanish

Noun

boogie m (plural boogies)

1. boogy