booger
noun/ˈbuɡər/
Frequency rank: #17,070 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a piece of dried or semi-dried mucus from inside the nose.
Example sentence
The little boy wiped that sticky booger on his sleeve when he thought no one was looking.
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