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Bougie

//ˈbuːʒi// adj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery). derogatory, slang, usually

    "Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff."

  2. 2
    Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1. British, Canada, slang
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from French. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Former name of Béjaïa, Algeria. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.

    ""There, as my lord, with achromatic glass, / "O'erlooks St. James's Park, and on the grass, / "Beneath his mansion's half-closed window spies / "Two crouching urchins' gross obscenities, / "He turns his eager gaze, adjusts the screw, / "And brings their unwashed nudities in view. / "That spot, concealed by two o'er hanging hills, / "Foul sweat and fœtid excrement distils, / "Yet frowsy, there the pipe-clayed soldier sports, / "And bishops hold episcopalian courts. / "'Tis there the Bath empiric's finger guides, / "The oiled bougie ; and as the dildo slides / "Besmeared, to meet last night's descending meal, / "Oft makes the strictures he pretends to heal."

  2. 2
    A person who exhibits bougie behavior. derogatory, slang, usually

    "All in all, Black Anglo-Saxons today remain a variegated group, and their numbers continue, relentlessly, to multiply. / In the late 1960's^([sic – meaning 1960s]) following the first appearance of this book, The Black Anglo-Saxons, street militants and conscious members of the Black middle class popularly called them "bougies.""

  3. 3
    Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”). alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    A wax candle.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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 The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.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.

Etymology 2

From bourgeoisie.

Etymology 3

From bourgeoisie.

Etymology 4

Probably of French origin.

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