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Bouge vs Bougie - What's the difference?

bouge | bougie |

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

(-)
  • 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 [...].

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of bulge.

    Verb

    (boug)
  • To swell out.
  • To bilge.
  • * Hakluyt
    • Their ship bouged .
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    bougie

    English

    Etymology 1

    , after the Algerian city (Bougie), and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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

    • Etymology 2

    From bourgeoisie; compare bourgie.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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.
    • 2007 , Satire pervades the series of fictional magazine covers '', L. Kent Wolgamott, ''The Lincoln Journal Star , October 12, 2007, [http://journalstar.com/entertainment/arts-and-culture/article_ea94f11c-d61d-5940-8eb2-688609281e26.html]:
  • :: 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.
    • 2007 , ":
  • :: 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
    • 2010 , '', Season 2, Episode 1, ''Gone With the Window , airdate February 1, 2010:
  • :: Shangela is kind of bougie , but she's also your homegirl.
    • 2010 , ":
  • :: 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
    • Synonyms
    * chichi * ritzy * snobby * high and mighty
    Related terms
    * bourgie ----