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bougie

noun
/ˈbuːʒi/

Etymology

Borrowed from French bougie (“wax candle”), after the Algerian city Bougie (Béjaïa), and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made. The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen. Doublet of bugia.

  1. borrowed from bougie

Definitions

  1. A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical…

    A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.

  2. A wax candle.

  3. Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois…

    Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).

    • Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff.
    • Called “bougie” when she was growing up, even though she’d never considered herself close to that, Ewing has turned the word around, using it as the title of a fictitious magazine she has dreamed up.
    • I'll be on the movie screens / Magazines and bougie scenes
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in…

      Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

    2. A person who exhibits bougie behavior.

    3. Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”).

    4. A surname from French.

    5. Former name of Béjaïa, Algeria.

The neighborhood

Derived

boughetto, bougieness

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA