Definition of BOUGIE

bougie

Plural: bougies

Noun

  • A wax candle or a slender medical instrument.
  • 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.
  • A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
  • Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”).

Adj

  • Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).
  • Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

Examples

  • She lit a BOUGIE, hoping for inspiration to find a seven-letter word on the Scrabble board.

Origin / Etymology

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 The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.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.

Synonyms

chichi, classy, high and mighty, posh, ritzy, saditty, snobby, snooty

Scrabble Score: 9

bougie: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bougie: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bougie: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

bougie: valid Words With Friends Word