woolly booger

woolly booger
 n.— «McCormick opines that (here?) boogie woogie “is not a musical reference but an outgrowth of bogie or bogie man. Considering the sexual connotation of boogie woogie (woolly booger in central Kentucky), we seem to have a vagina dentata motif.» —“”Field” Recordings” by D.K. Wilgus Journal of American Folklore, Oct.-Dec., 1966. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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