Bogie or Snot Bogey?

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Can anyone tell me what spelling of the word is used to mean dried up mucus in the UK? Is it 'bogey' or 'bogie', or are they interchangable: can one pick either, depending on the circumstances? This may seem somewhat trivial ... but that is the question.

― Owen, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bogey I'd say. Snot is the non dried up stuff. BUT WHY DO YOU ASK?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd always spell it bogie. but i ain't so good at spelling.

also, we say bogieman, americans say boogieman - but he is neither made of bogies nor does he boogie. so what gives?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Chambers Dictionary gives Bogie as the word for the number of pivoted undercarriages on a train, and Bogey as the hanging bat thingy.

What the correct spelling for the abbreviation of Humphrey Bogart's name is, I cannot say....

― Alex M., Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought Americans called him the Boogerman?

― Alex M., Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I am something of an authority on this, having started my glittering journalistic career with The Daily Bogey, a quality broadsheet co-founded and lovingly drawn by myself and my friend George, age 7.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

with apologies to Terry Jacks:

We had joy, we had fun
Picking bogeys in the sun
But the sun got too hot
And the bogeys turned to snot.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I wrote and had a book published recently, which available through Amazon. This is not the time or place to be all spammy Ewing, so I won't give details or nothing. But it is right rummy, you know ... I mean, I proof read the manuscript over and over, obsessively, for months; and now I spot an error - when it's too late. Why can't words all be the same? Can any amount of proofing be enough? Perhaps that's the real question here.

― Owen, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

But the sun got too hot
And the bogeys turned to snot.

How could this happen?

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Bogeys only turn to snot when they need advice.

― Owen, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

'bogey' or 'bogie'... can one pick either

tee hee

― David Moore (Mooro), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan Perry: it sounds like you were about to say 'but you can't pick ... '. What can't you pick, Dan?

― Owen, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Pick up dan ...

― Owen, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

...but you can't pick your friend's nose! OR CAN YOU???????????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

only to ensure they are no longer your friend. Unless your friend has no arms.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a friend like that once. He had a wicked temper but was fairly harmless.

― SupaSpinal, Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

If you see a bunny with its nose all green and runny.....

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

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