bougie

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
发音 bo͞oʹzhē

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
    — "There, as my lord, with achromatic glass, / "O'erlooks St. James's Park, and on the grass, / "Beneath his mansion's half-closed window spies / "Two crouching urchins' gross obscenities, / "He turns his eager gaze, adjusts the screw, / "And brings their unwashed nudities in view. / "That spot, concealed by two o'er hanging hills, / "Foul sweat and fœtid excrement distils, / "Yet frowsy, there the pipe-clayed soldier sports, / "And bishops hold episcopalian courts. / "'Tis there the Bath empiric's finger guides, / "The oiled bougie ; and as the dildo slides / "Besmeared, to meet last night's descending meal, / "Oft makes the strictures he pretends to heal.
  2. A person who exhibits bougie behavior. derogatory,slang,usually
    — All in all, Black Anglo-Saxons today remain a variegated group, and their numbers continue, relentlessly, to multiply. / In the late 1960's^([sic – meaning 1960s]) following the first appearance of this book, The Black Anglo-Saxons, street militants and conscious members of the Black middle class popularly called them "bougies."
  3. Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”). alt-of,alternative
  4. A wax candle.
形容词 adj.
  1. Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery). derogatory,slang,usually
    — Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff.
  2. Fancy or good-looking, without connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness. Canada,UK,slang

词形变化

bougies plural bougier comparative bougiest superlative bourgie alternative boojie alternative boujee alternative boujée alternative bougies plural bougies plural

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词源 1
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 The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen. Doublet of bugia.
词源 2
From bourgeoisie.
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