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bougie

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈbuːʒi/Sorted begiouStarts with BEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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 The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.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

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