OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 37794

bougie

/ˈbuːʒi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fichudo • fifí • fufu • fufurufo • fufú • pituco • pseudoburgués
Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).
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…
Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff.
bucloso • burgués • cheto • concheto • de postín • ficho • fresa • fresón • pijo • popof • siútico
Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
📚 noun • entry_id 37795

bougie

/ˈbuːʒi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bucloso • concheto • fichudo • fifí • fufurufo • pijo • pituco
A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
All in all, Black Anglo-Saxons today remain a variegated group, and their numbers continue, relentlessly, to multiply. / In the late 1960's^([sic – meaning 1960s]) following the fi…
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