bougie

noun · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

bougies

1.
(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.
2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 12, I was not too sure, as a child, what doctors "did," and glimpses of catheters and bougies in their kidney dishes, retractors and speculums, rubber gloves, catgut thread, and forecepts - all this, I think, rather frightened me, though it fascinated me too.
2.
A wax candle.
3.
(derogatory, slang, usually)(chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
4.
(alt of, alternative)Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”).

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

bougierbougiestbourgie

Superlative

boojieboujeeboujée

1.
(derogatory, slang, usually)(slang, usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).
Đồng nghĩa: chichi, classy, high and mighty, ritzy, saditty, snobby, snooty, posh
2.
(British, Canada, slang)Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

chichi classyhigh and mightyritzysadittysnobby snooty posh

Cùng gốc / liên quan

boughettobougienessbourgie

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Nguồn gốc từ

Borrowed from French bougie (wax candle), after the Algerian city Bougie (Béjaïa), and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made. The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen. bugia.