bougie
/ˈbuːʒi/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- (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).
- Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
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