boogerlee

plural boogerlees

1. alternativeAlternative form of boogalee.

   ... Ted Herbert (pronounced "A-BARE") had single-handedly saved the city. When the flood came in 1927 Herbert was an unlikely hero; he was just a young fun-loving boogerlee, a "no count Cajun" who worked as a salvage master […]

   1992, B. Clarence Hall, Clyde Thornton Wood, Big Muddy: Down the Mississippi Through America's Heartland, E P Dutton, page 270

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   Discussion of racial purity of coonasses, boogerlees, and out-of-state Cajans represented a relative improvement of the prestige of Cajun: after all, descendants of the Acadian exiles in Louisiana could be called names more pejorative […]

   2002, Jacques M. Henry, Carl Leon Bankston, Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, page 44

   'Look at that high-yellow boogerlee, he said, nodding towards the door, just to make conversation. 'Damn! She an ice-cream dream!' Lick's breath caught in his throat and his fingers depressed every valve on his cornet, a reflex action.

   2004, Patrick Neate, Twelve Bar Blues, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 339