Friday Word: Bougie

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bougie

1 of 3

adjective
bou·​gie ˈbü-ˌzhē

variants or less commonly boujee
ˈbü-ˌjē
or bourgie
ˈbu̇r-ˌzhē,
ˈbü-ˌzhē

bougier also boujier or bourgier; bougiest also boujiest or bourgiest

informal + usually disparaging : marked by a concern for wealth, possessions, and respectability : bourgeois

Soothing rhythms after midnight, theme songs to lucky affairs, shotgun weddings, and bougie proms, the fodder for adventurous crooners on amateur night at the Apollo …
—Michael A. Gonzales

After college, [writer Colson Whitehead] stopped going out to Sag Harbor much. "It was too bourgie," he said.
—Charles McGrath

bougie
2 of 3
noun (1).

variants or less commonly bourgie
plural bougies also bourgies

informal + usually disparaging

: a middle-class person : bourgeois

Of course, it may have occurred to Garber that people who summer in charming Nantucket houses, as she does, ought not to throw stones at wasteful bougies.

—Zoe Heller

bougie
3 of 3

noun (2)

bou·​gie ˈbü-ˌzhē
-ˌjē

plural bougies

1: a wax candle

2 a
: a tapering cylindrical instrument for introduction into a tubular passage of the body

b
: suppository

(source: Merriam Webster Online, m-w.com)

Here is a photo of meaning 3 of 3, subcategory 2a:




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