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Definitions
Stylish in an affectedly upscale way, or a slender medical instrument.
Word origin
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 The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.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.
Used in a sentence
“Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff.”
“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.”
“I'll be on the movie screens / Magazines and bougie scenes”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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