Definition of bougie
(Entry 1 of 3)
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
noun (1)
variants:
or less commonly bourgie
plural bougies also bourgies
Definition of bougie (Entry 2 of 3)
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
noun (2)
plural bougies
Definition of bougie (Entry 3 of 3)
1
: a wax candle
2a
: a tapering cylindrical instrument for introduction into a tubular passage of the body
b
: suppository
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The first known use of bougie was in 1732
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