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bougie
/ˈbuˌʒi/
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What does bougie mean?
noun
- A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
- A wax candle.
adjective
- (slang) Fancy or good-looking, without connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness.
More meanings (5)
noun
- Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”).
- (derogatory, slang) A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
proper noun
- A surname from French.
- Former name of Béjaïa, Algeria.
adjective
- (derogatory, slang) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbuˌʒi/
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M. Séon, after having tried in vain to abate the irritation, endeavoured to pass an elastic bougie.
Ruysch, the famous Dutch physician, remarks that he introduced a hollow bougie into a woman's stomach he had just opened, and he observed a vapor issuing from the mouth of the tube, and this lit on contact with the atmosphere.