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BOOGER
Definition of BOOGER
noun
A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Alteration of the English dialectal words buggard (bug + -ard), boggart or boggard. Compare bogey. Compare also Alemannic German Naaseböög (“booger”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BOOG · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names German.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BOOGER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 20 boards so far. 27 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 37, 26 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 153, 20 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 37, 26 June 2026.
Built from these letters
BOOGER starts with B and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read BEGOOR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BOOGER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 37
Could you have found BOOGER?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 37 - and most players walked straight past it.
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