Bouge vs Bougie - What's the difference?
bouge | bougie |
The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
*2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p, 29:
*:Officials carrying lists of servants receiving ‘bouge of court’ – wages and board – carried out identity checks [...].
To swell out.
To bilge.
* Hakluyt
(medicine) A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
a wax candle
(chiefly, African American Vernacular English, slang, usually, pejorative) Acting as if one is of a higher social status than one is; suspicions regarding true roots and background are implied.
:: 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
:: I'm not clean, I'm not pristine
:: I'm no queen, I'm no machine
:: Shangela is kind of bougie , but she's also your homegirl.
:: I don't need you or your brand new Benz
:: Or your bougie friends
:: I don't need love lookin' like diamonds
:: Lookin' like diamonds
As nouns the difference between bouge and bougie
is that bouge is the right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc while bougie is spark plug.As a verb bouge
is to swell out.bouge
English
Etymology 1
Alteration of (bouche).Noun
(-)Etymology 2
Variant of bulge.Verb
(boug)- Their ship bouged .
bougie
English
Etymology 1
, after the Algerian city (Bougie), and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From bourgeoisie; compare bourgie.Adjective
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