bougie
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
bougie (plural bougies)
- (medicine) A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 12,
- I was not too sure, as a child, what doctors "did," and glimpses of catheters and bougies in their kidney dishes, retractors and speculums, rubber gloves, catgut thread, and forecepts - all this, I think, rather frightened me, though it fascinated me too.
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 12,
- A wax candle.
bougie (comparative bougier, superlative bougiest)
- (chiefly, AAVE, slang, usually, derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).
- 1991, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Season 2, Episode 3, Will Gets a Job, airdate September 23, 1991:
- Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff.
- 2007, Satire pervades the series of fictional magazine covers , L. Kent Wolgamott, The Lincoln Journal Star, October 12, 2007, :
- 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.
- 2007, "Glamorous" by Fergie:
- I'll be on the movie screens
- Magazines and bougie scenes
- I'm not clean, I'm not pristine
- I'm no queen, I'm no machine
- 2010, RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 2, Episode 1, Gone With the Window, airdate February 1, 2010:
- Shangela is kind of bougie, but she's also your homegirl.
- 2010, "Sleazy" by Ke$ha:
- I don't need you or your brand new Benz
- Or your bougie friends
- I don't need love lookin' like diamonds
- Lookin' like diamonds
- 1991, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Season 2, Episode 3, Will Gets a Job, airdate September 23, 1991:
- (British, slang) fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
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