# Speaking of snot.....

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-snot/6208>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 15, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-snot/6208 "2000-01-15T14:34:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RedDawg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@RedDawg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedDawg)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-snot/6208/1 "2000-01-15T14:34:00Z")

</div>

Surely there is an official medical term for the boogers we pick out of our noses. What? You don’t pick your nose? I’ll bet you don’t masturbate either. The only thing I have heard of that seems remotely correct is “mucoid”, but since it’s not in the Scrabble dictionary it must not be a word. Help, I’m losing sleep over this, it’s nothing to sneeze at after all…

* * *

“Every creative act results from the sudden cessation of stupidity.”  
-Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![pooh1331](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@pooh1331](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pooh1331)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-snot/6208/2 "2000-01-15T16:19:00Z")

</div>

how 'bout mucus?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-snot/6208/3 "2000-01-15T21:40:00Z")

</div>

How about ‘mucins.’

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-snot/6208/4 "2000-01-15T21:49:00Z")

</div>

Nasal stool. (Akin to the oral stool that appears in certain forums.)

Ray

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-snot/6208/5 "2000-01-15T22:10:00Z")

</div>

The term for compulsive nose picking is rhinotillexomania.

* * *

“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?” --W.C. Fields

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Meow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meow)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-snot/6208/6 "2000-01-15T22:56:00Z")

</div>

In Japan they call it ‘nose shit’

works for me!

Meow!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2000, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speaking-of-snot/6208/7 "2000-01-16T05:02:00Z")

</div>

When you’re with your honey  
\</tr\>\<tr bgcolor="#77FF77"\>\<td\>\</td\>\<td\>And your nose is runny  
\</tr\>\<tr bgcolor="#AAFFAA"\>\<td\>\</td\>\<td\>And you think it’s funny  
\</tr\>\<tr bgcolor="#77FF77"\>\<td\>\</td\>\<td\>But it’s snot.