bougier also boujier or bourgier; bougiest also boujiest or bourgiest
informal + usually disparaging
: marked by a concern for wealth, possessions, and respectability : bourgeois
Soothing rhythms after midnight, theme songs to lucky affairs, shotgun weddings, and bougie proms, the fodder for adventurous crooners on amateur night at the Apollo …—
Michael A. Gonzales
Michael A. GonzalesAfter college, [writer Colson Whitehead] stopped going out to Sag Harbor much. "It was too bourgie," he said.—Charles McGrath
Charles McGrath
variants
or less commonly bourgie
plural bougies also bourgies
informal + usually disparaging
: a middle-class person : bourgeois
Of course, it may have occurred to Garber that people who summer in charming Nantucket houses, as she does, ought not to throw stones at wasteful bougies.—Zoe Heller
Zoe Heller
plural bougies
1
: a wax candle
2
a
: a tapering cylindrical instrument for introduction into a tubular passage of the body
b
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“Bougie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bougie. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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: a tapering cylindrical instrument for introduction into a tubular passage of the body
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