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What is a booger made of?
Pronunciation: /BOO - grr/
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of English dialect buggard, boggart, from 1bug +
-ard Date: 1866
1 : BOGEYMAN
2 : a piece of dried nasal mucus
Boogers are mucus (myoo-kuss). Mucus is the thin, slippery material
that is found inside your nose. Many people call mucus snot. Your nose
makes nearly a cupful of snot every day. Snot is produced by the
mucous membranes in the nose, which it moistens and protects.
When you inhale air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny
particles, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these particles made
it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get damaged and it would
be difficult to breathe. Snot works by trapping the particles and
keeping them in the nose.
After these particles get stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds
them along with some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia.
The mucus dries around the particles. When the particles and dried-out
mucus clump together, you're left with a booger!
Boogers can be squishy and slimy or tough and crumbly. In fact,
boogers are a sign that your nose is working properly.
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