• Boogy

    Full definition of boogy

    Noun

    boogy

    (plural boogys)
      1. A black person.
        • 1947, Ralph Ellison
        • 1967 , Jerome Charyn
        • 2024, Rudolph Fisher
      2. A jazzy style of music or dance.
        • 1950,
        • 2004 , Harry Justin Elam, ?Robert Alexander
      3. A dance where boogy music is played.
        • 1981 , Thomas Akare
      4. A goblin or hostile supernatural being.
        • 1901, Irving Bacheller
        • 1986,
        • 2012, Orson Scott Card
      5. A piece of dried mucus in or removed from the nostril.
        • 2005 , Thomas E. Despres
    1. Sexual intercourse
      • 1967, Ronald Ribman

    Derived terms

    Adjective

    boogy

    1. Suspect; dodgy.
      • 1967, Audrey Lillian Barker

    Verb

      1. To dance to boogie music; to get down.
        • 1976 , John Schultz
        • 1980, Elmore Leonard
        • 1992 , Alan Cowell
        • 2017, Stuart Woods
        • 2017, Jed Pitman
      2. To move, travel, or exit; to sashay.
        • 1986, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance
        • 2001 , Robert Swindells
        • 2009, Chris Taylor
    1. To have sex.
      • 2012, John Walker ·
      • 2024, Debra Clopton
    2. To bogart.
      • 2011, Christopher Ransom
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