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Bougie vs Bodgie - What's the difference?

bougie | bodgie |

As nouns the difference between bougie and bodgie

is that bougie is spark plug while bodgie is (australia|new zealand|slang) a member of a 1950s rock subculture; a male member of the subculture.

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

    bodgie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A member of a 1950s rock subculture; a male member of the subculture.
  • * 1993 , Lesley Johnson, The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up , page 100,
  • Unlike McDonald, Manning noted with dismay that traditional relations between the sexes were broken down in bodgie' groups. ' Bodgies , he argued, were disturbed youth, hooligans, maladjusted.
  • * 2001 , Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music , page 223,
  • The New Zealand public and press largely shared his view of bodgies' as juvenile delinquents who posed a social threat. The '''bodgie''' soon became a national bogey man, with alarmist newspaper reports about ' bodgie behaviour.
  • * 2010 , William Stokes, Westbrook , page 183,
  • In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society.

    Coordinate terms

    * widgie (female)

    Synonyms

    * greaser (US), rocker (British)