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boogy

boogy noun: a black person.

Noun

boogy (plural boogies)

  1. A black person.
    • Strike a match, the boogy's nuts.1947, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, page 566
    • I wouldn't give a shit if he was a boogy even, nobody's got style like Joe DiMaggio.1967, Jerome Charyn, The Man who Grew Younger, and Other Stories, page 45
  2. A jazzy style of music or dance.
    • MR. KELLER: Be-bop is a new word for boogy or jazz.1950, Northwestern University on the Air, the Reviewing Stand, page 5
    • The rockin' to the bang bang boogy say up jump the boogy To the rhythm of the boogy the beat2004, Harry Justin Elam, Robert Alexander, The Fire this Time: African-American Plays for the 21st Century, page 578
  3. A dance where boogy music is played.
    • That it would be after they had come from the boogy.1981, Thomas Akare, The Slums, page 59
  4. A goblin or hostile supernatural being.
    • "The boogy light!" D'ri whispered. "There't goes ag'in!"1901, Irving Bacheller, D'ri and I, page 149
    • "Ya mean, yah ain't no boogy? " he jabbered. There was that sneaky, breathy laugh again. " Of course I'm not a boogy! "1986, LiNQ. - Volumes 14-15, page 50
  5. A piece of dried mucus in or removed from the nostril.
    • The kids were laughing at him so he shot back and told her, "Well, Miss Ortíz, with all due respect, I was taught that boogy is something that comes out of your nose and poopy is something that a dog does on the street."2005, Thomas E. Despres, The Cultural Connection, page 91
  6. Sexual intercourse
    • SOLDIER . There ain't nobody doing the dirty boogy.1967, Ronald Ribman, Harry, Noon and Night, page 21

Adjective

boogy (comparative more boogy, superlative most boogy)

  1. Suspect; dodgy.
    • Boogy questions get boogy answers .1967, Audrey Lillian Barker, The Middling, page 64

Verb

boogy (third-person singular simple present boogies, present participle boogying, simple past and past participle boogied)

  1. To dance to boogie music; to get down.
    • How was he supposed to boogy with one acoustic ?1976, John Schultz, Angels in My Oven, page 131
    • He could hear the hi-fi going next door, Lesley boogying around the apartment to the Bee-Gees, ignoring her aunt, who was a little deaf.1980, Elmore Leonard, Gold Coast, page 58
  2. To move, travel, or exit; to sashay.
    • There I was in the middle of the night boogying down the avenue and suddenly there was a cow and he boogied right over and there was yellow cake everywhere.1986, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance, Motor Carrier Safety, page 167
    • And talking of dopes, why don't you boogy on over to Thresher for a refresher.2001, Robert Swindells, Wrecked, page 9
  3. To have sex.
    • This book was originally written in the "boogy down" year of 1974 – right in the middle of the 1970's when the dating scene finally broke free from the restrictions of the "Ozzie & Harriet" 1950's and the unwashed "Love Bead" 1960's.2012, John Walker ·, How to Score Girls
    • Boogying with him would be fun.2024, Debra Clopton, The Trouble with a Valentine’s Cowboy
  4. To bogart.
    • He knew they were. boogying the beer.2011, Christopher Ransom, The People Next Door

Examples of boogy in a sentence

  • And what does the hard guy do the hardest boogy in Harlem?2024, Rudolph Fisher, The Walls of Jericho, page 104:
  • "I make a boogy for my boy-baby,” she say.2012, Orson Scott Card, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  • South Africans of any skin color were all out there on the floor and had decisions to make: not whether to boogy, but whom to boogy with.1992, Alan Cowell, Killing the Wizards, page 225:
  • "There will be a big band, so you will have to dance with me." "And I shall." "No boogying, don't worry." “Do you think me incapable of boogying?”2017, Stuart Woods, Indecent Exposure, page 88:

Forms of boogy

Noun
pluralboogies
Adjective
comparativemore boogy
superlativemost boogy
Verb
third-person singular presentboogies
present participleboogying
past participleboogied
pastboogied

Words formed from boogy

Questions about boogy

What does boogy mean?
Boogy means a black person.
How do you use boogy in a sentence?
And what does the hard guy do the hardest boogy in Harlem?
What part of speech is boogy?
Boogy can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
What is the plural of boogy?
The plural of boogy is boogies.

Words near boogy in the dictionary

  1. boogiewoogies
  2. boogin
  3. booging
  4. boogins
  5. boogs
  6. boogy
  7. boogying
  8. boogying down
  9. boogying on down
  10. boogyman
  11. boogymen

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