Can you tell me when do I have to use bogey or booger? Bogey is american english and booger british english? I was watching the videoclip of Potter Puppet Pals like a parody of Harry Potter and at some point the puppets say: "Dragon bogies! Can you help me please? It is bogies, boggies, bogeys, boogies, booggies? Ok I'm a little confused. Thanks in advance! The only sense of "bogey" I was familiar with while growing up was the bogeyman, a scary, shadowy character who could come and snatch you from your bed while you were asleep.
It was pronounced the same as "boogie" in "boogie-woogie". As for the emanations of the nose, "boogers" is a child's word and so is "boogies". I think you need two "o"s in any spelling of them in AE.
In this case, though, it's pronounced with the long "o" sound, not the "oo" sound. Oh thank you so much for that explanation. I think the puppet pronounced it like "bogies" with a long "o" but I'm not sure and I don't know if I can post the link to the video to watch it online, so you can help me with the listening?
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What is the pronunciation of bogey? Browse bog off. Test your vocabulary with our fun image quizzes. Image credits. Word of the Day goodwill. Blog Outsets and onsets! Read More. November 08, To top. English American Examples. And it isn't listed in any local slang dictionary. My dear, dear Lynne, I certainly was not claiming that anything was more southern than Newcastle. Glasgow could not be described so, at least not accurately.
But it's okay, you're foreign and don't know any better. Here's one of the last citations for it: " -- Austral. I did just think of an American or atleast military American usage of "boey" in the sense of "par. It may be related to the radar usage if you think of it as a target. There's an old Weird Al Yankovic song -- for the unfamiliar, he's an American singer best known for his parodies of pop songs, though AFAIK this one is an original -- done in a disco style which starts off: Gotta boogie Gotta boogie Gotta boogie Gotta boogie on my finger and I can't shake it off And of course it goes on to describe the many ways in which he fails to remove the "boogie" booger from his finger.
He was from SUnderland and for some reason it was all about go-karts. I'm sure the only reason he did it so he could say "bogey" a lot to a large group of giggling pre-teens. This meaning is also used to describe the base of a railway carriage. All this discussion of bogies and not a single mention of Humphrey Bogart?
After years of asking her to tell me she finally said that in Lancashire they use that term for bestiality. In any generic "northern" BrE accent I think your "booger" would match "bugger". As a southerner in Manchester one of the weird shifts in pronunciation is how my "buck" gets pronounced by them as I would pronounce "book", and they then pronounce "book" to match your ghostly "boo".
Apropos of bogeys, boogers, and other things that come out of your nose, my husband generally calls them "snobs". He spent a lot of his childhood in Australia -- is this an Oz term? And yes, this is probably the most disgusting thread on this blog.
The "bogey" as "par" dates from the early days of golf and refers to a "ghost player" to match scores with. When gutta perca sp? My two-year-old daughter has learnt "booger" from her American mother. She pronounces it exactly as my Yorkshire parents would pronounce "bugger", though they rarely stoop to such language.
I'm looking forward to seeing their reaction when they first hear her say it - I'm fairly sure they won't know the American word, so they will assume our daughter is swearing in good broad Yorkshire.
Such mutual incomprehensiveness makes several decent puns unworkable on the wrong side of the Atlantic. In the Joni Mitchell song God Must Be a Boogieman, boogie refers to music while boogieman also suggests a frightening or unbelievable ghost.
This here copy of Chambers English Dictionary says of the golfing bogey: "[…] The score, for a given hole or for the whole course, of an imaginary good player, Colonel Bogey, fixed as a standard: the bogey can be higher than par or sometimes equivalent to it, now usually a score of one stroke above the par for any hole.
According to the OED, 'buggy' in the carriage sense first appeared in Although the etymology is unknown, it is conjectured to be related to bogie. Gentleman's Magazine: "Driving a post coach and four against a single horse chaise, throwing out the driver of it, and breaking the chaise to pieces.. There's another word booger , which I know from Blues lyrics. He declares between choruses: Now listen, my feets done failed on me but once, That was last Saturday night, down at that booger rooger According to Stephen Calt in Barrelhouse Words, A Blues Dialect Dictionary this is: An obscure name for a dance party that may have been the parent term of boogie woogie.
This conjecture is supported by the fact that pitch a booger was interchangeable with pitch a boogie. Now boogie woogie was ostensibly a specific dance described in the record which started the whole craze: Pine Top's Boogie Woogie. However, Steve Calt reckons that the dance was a fiction — disguising the fact that boogie was a rude word, as was woogie. As a verb, boogie came to mean 'party' but before that it was 'have sex' — as in Kokomo Arnold's Feels So Good : Mama it ain't no good you keep raise sand I know you been boogying' by the way you stand Lucille Bogan, who was given to talking dirty, used the word as both a noun and a verb in Alley Boogie Papa got a watch, brother got a ring Sister got her arms full, of alley-boogyin' that thing She's wild boy her boogie, only thing she choose Now she's got to do the boogie, to buy her alley-baby some shoes There's a theory that this derives from 18th century Scottish dance the reel o' bogie noted by Eric Partridge.
A different sense of boogie is found I Wonder Who's Boogying Her Woogie Lonesome and blue, here I stand Holdin' my boogie in my hand and I used to boogie-woogie but I'm sorry to say My little woogie packed up an' went away I wonder who's boogyin' her woogie now And woogie isn't just a vaguely suggestive rhyme.
Must be have something in Detroit you're really wild about. You go back there you gonna sure get woogie I believe I feel like gettin' woogie. I've chanced upon this essay on booger rooger. The very assiduous researcher Max Haymes has discovered that there was a booger dance among the Cherokee, and concludes that the Southern Black dance took its name from it. The mechanism he suggests is that the Black dance was sexually suggestive, while the Cherokee dance was obscene. Well yes, the dance described was in a very different mood; a contrived theatrical shock to a normally straight-laced sober group.
Men disguised as aliens often white men , bearing obscene names, speaking in mock foreign accents and wearing artificial phalluses made out of gourds would burst in on ostensibly unsuspecting gatherings and shock the women and girls.
The name, I suspect, is just an interesting coincidence. Still, it's not impossible that Blind Lemon on his travels came across Blacks who knew of — but failed to understand — the culture of their Cherokee neighbours. Related to bogy as in bogy man is the word bugaboo , of which the first sense in the OED is A fancied object of terror; a bogy; a bugbear. There's a theory that the enigmatic term foggy dew in an English folk song known to many through Benjamin Britten's prettified arrangement was a substitution for original bugaboo.
Well, maybe. Love words? Need even more definitions? Just between us: it's complicated. Ask the Editors 'Everyday' vs. What Is 'Semantic Bleaching'? How 'literally' can mean "figuratively".
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