"loogies" and "loogers"

Posted by Barry Jacobs on June 21, 2000

Does anyone know the history of these words meaning "a gob of phlegm?" They're favorites of ten-year-old boys all over America, and have been for at least the past twenty years, but I've never seen them in print.

• "Loogies" and "loogers"--boogies and boogers? Bruce Kahl 06/21/00
  • Other way around: from b to L Bruce Kahl 06/21/00