Bourgeoisie vs Bougie - What's the difference?
bourgeoisie | bougie |
a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate
(Marxism) The capitalist class.
(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 bourgeoisie and bougie
is that bourgeoisie is , middle class while bougie is spark plug.bourgeoisie
English
(wikipedia bourgeoisie)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* haute bourgeoisie * national bourgeoisie, comprador bourgeoisie * petite bourgeoisie, petty bourgeoisie * bourgiebougie
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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- 2010 , '', Season 2, Episode 1, ''Gone With the Window , airdate February 1, 2010:
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