boogy

plural boogies

1. Alternative form of boogie.
   1. A black person.

      Strike a match, the boogy's nuts.

      1947, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, page 566

      2 more examples

      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

      And what does the hard guy do the hardest boogy in Harlem?

      2024, Rudolph Fisher, The Walls of Jericho, page 104

   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

      1 more example

      The rockin' to the bang bang boogy say up jump the boogy To the rhythm of the boogy the beat

      2004, 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

2. Alternative form of bogey.
   1. 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

      2 more examples

      "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

      "I make a boogy for my boy-baby,” she say. Fat Fox laugh, he know she lie. “Ain't no blackfeather boogy. I never heared of such a thing."

      2012, Orson Scott Card, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   2. 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

3. Sexual intercourse

   SOLDIER . There ain't nobody doing the dirty boogy.

   1967, Ronald Ribman, Harry, Noon and Night, page 21

comparative more boogy · superlative most boogy

1. Suspect; dodgy.

   Boogy questions get boogy answers .

   1967, Audrey Lillian Barker, The Middling, page 64

present singular third person boogies · participle present boogying · participle past boogied · past boogied

1. Alternative form of boogie.
   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

      4 more examples

      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

      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

      Are they boogying and do they know how?' asks Johnny.

      2017, Jed Pitman, The Invisible Man

   2. To move, travel, or exit; to sashay.

      And talking of dopes, why don't you boogy on over to Thresher for a refresher.

      2001, Robert Swindells, Wrecked, page 9

      2 more examples

      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

      Well I'm boogying around there and this panther ain't crossed my mind that it'd be this panther that come back.

      2009, Chris Taylor, Elizabeth, page 23

2. To have sex.

   Boogying with him would be fun.

   2024, Debra Clopton, The Trouble with a Valentine’s Cowboy

   1 more example

   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

3. To bogart.

   He knew they were. boogying the beer.

   2011, Christopher Ransom, The People Next Door