"boogalee" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably related to bougie and/or boogaloo.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boogalees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "boogalee (plural boogalees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, Robert Tallant, Mrs. Candy and Saturday night",
          "text": "\"That boogalee's been talking,\" he said, arranging his pillows higher. \"I know he saw me this morning.\" \"He did.\" \"Snoopy,\" said Donald. \"Mr. Petit ain't a boogalee,\" said Mrs. Candy. \"And he ain't snoopy. He's right. What my roomers does is […]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, The Twainian",
          "text": "Avis Trosclair was a boogalee, a Cajun from the deepest bayous of Louisiana, a man of vast inner resources of happiness. About 42 years old, he talked with a perpetual love of humorous conversation, with a Cajun accent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Myron Tassin, We Are Acadians #2: Nous Sommes Acadiens, Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., page 18",
          "text": "We were considered pleasant to be around in spite of—or perhaps because of—a supposed utter lack of ambition. We were routinely called “boogalees” behind our backs and “coon-asses” to our faces. But times were changing, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Walker Percy, The Moviegoer: A Novel, Open Road Media",
          "text": "After the war some of us bought a houseboat on Vermilion Bay near Tigre au Chenier. Walter got everything organized. It was just like him to locate a cook-caretaker living right out there in the swamp and to line up some real boogalee guides.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Woody Falgoux, Rise of the Cajun Mariners: The Race for Big Oil, Skyhorse",
          "text": "To Bobby's schoolmates there, he was more than a non-English speaker, he was a Boogalee, a New Orleanian's derogatory term for a Cadien, or Cajun. The city boys teased Bobby about his hand-me-down coveralls […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Cajun (with the implication that the person has partially black as well as partially white ancestry)."
      ],
      "id": "en-boogalee-en-noun-RZhMov7A",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Cajun",
          "Cajun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes derogatory) A Cajun (with the implication that the person has partially black as well as partially white ancestry)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "boogerlee"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "boogalee"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably related to bougie and/or boogaloo.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "boogalees",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "boogalee (plural boogalees)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, Robert Tallant, Mrs. Candy and Saturday night",
          "text": "\"That boogalee's been talking,\" he said, arranging his pillows higher. \"I know he saw me this morning.\" \"He did.\" \"Snoopy,\" said Donald. \"Mr. Petit ain't a boogalee,\" said Mrs. Candy. \"And he ain't snoopy. He's right. What my roomers does is […]\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960, The Twainian",
          "text": "Avis Trosclair was a boogalee, a Cajun from the deepest bayous of Louisiana, a man of vast inner resources of happiness. About 42 years old, he talked with a perpetual love of humorous conversation, with a Cajun accent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Myron Tassin, We Are Acadians #2: Nous Sommes Acadiens, Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., page 18",
          "text": "We were considered pleasant to be around in spite of—or perhaps because of—a supposed utter lack of ambition. We were routinely called “boogalees” behind our backs and “coon-asses” to our faces. But times were changing, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Walker Percy, The Moviegoer: A Novel, Open Road Media",
          "text": "After the war some of us bought a houseboat on Vermilion Bay near Tigre au Chenier. Walter got everything organized. It was just like him to locate a cook-caretaker living right out there in the swamp and to line up some real boogalee guides.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Woody Falgoux, Rise of the Cajun Mariners: The Race for Big Oil, Skyhorse",
          "text": "To Bobby's schoolmates there, he was more than a non-English speaker, he was a Boogalee, a New Orleanian's derogatory term for a Cadien, or Cajun. The city boys teased Bobby about his hand-me-down coveralls […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Cajun (with the implication that the person has partially black as well as partially white ancestry)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Cajun",
          "Cajun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes derogatory) A Cajun (with the implication that the person has partially black as well as partially white ancestry)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "boogerlee"
    }
  ],
  "word": "boogalee"
}