📚 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.
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