boogerlee

English

Noun

boogerlee (plural boogerlees)

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

     ... 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 […]

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

     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 […]

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

     '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.

Further reading

• 2005, Jonathon Green, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. (→ISBN), page 157: "a person of mixed Black and White ancestry", "a Cajun"
• 2002, Jacques M. Henry, Carl Leon Bankston, Blue Collar Bayou: Louisiana Cajuns in the New Economy of Ethnicity, Praeger Publishers, →ISBN:

  Another derogative term addressed to Cajuns was boogerlee/bougalie [...]. Also spelled boogalee and bougalee, it referred to a French person of mixed black and white ancestry; "a contemptuous or taunting name […] "