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Bougie vs Bogie - What's the difference?

bougie | bogie |

As nouns the difference between bougie and bogie

is that bougie is spark plug while bogie is (rail|british|australia|new zealand|canada) structure with axles and wheels under a railway carriage or locomotive, called railroad truck in us english also used under semitrailers, and lorries with more than one rear axle.

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 ----

    bogie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bogey * bogy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rail, British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) Structure with axles and wheels under a railway carriage or locomotive, called railroad truck in US English. Also used under semitrailers, and lorries with more than one rear axle.
  • (Indian English) Railway carriage
  • .
  • (military) An aircraft of unknown friend/foe status. (compare bandit)
  • (golf) A score one stroke higher than par on any one hole.
  • (music) A toy similar to a violin bow, consisting of a wooden stick with notches along one or more sides or edges to produce a rattly noise when kratzed (stroked) against a hard edge, lip of container etc.
  • A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril.
  • (Ulster Scots) .