wooly booger
n.— «“Paul is kind of a bull moose type,” says a former associate who asked not to be named. “He doesn’t learn,” says Mr. Moss, who refers to his former boss as “a big old wooly booger.”» —“Meek: ‘I went in there with good intentions’” by Victoria Loe Dallas Morning News (Texas) Apr. 17, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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