How To Spell Bougie

American english is not always as it appears to be.

How to spell bougie. Borrowed from french bougie wax candle after the algerian city bougie and the tapered hand dipped candles it made the medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen. Boojie definition variant of bougie1. Bourgeois although it has produced some of the world s most dedicated and respected freedom fighters the black middle class as a group is characterized in the public mind as pretentious conspicuous consumers. So praytell what is the difference between bougie boujee and bourgie bourgeois. In fact dare i say the word bougie is actually derived from a french word with hundreds of years of.

Get to know regional words in this quiz. Fancy pretentious and so on. A listener recently wrote in to ask about the word bougie he d heard it being used to mean something elevated or high class. Hundreds of years ago bourgeois meant middle class but today the word and its slangy clipped form bougie can mean something more negative. This may be why there are different spellings for this word.

In any case a lot of people don t know that it derives from the aristocratic uppity french word bourgeois where the ge sound has no exact equivalent in english. Definition of bougie entry 2 of 4 informal usually disparaging. Uːʒi etymology 1. How to pronounce bourgeois audio. Plural bougies also bourgies.

Well the best way to answer this would be chronologically. English pronunciation. Plural bourgeois ˈbu rzh ˌwä z also ˈbu zh or ˈbüzh or bu rzh ˈwä z how to pronounce bourgeois audio. Definition of bourgeois entry 2 of 4 1 a. We ll start with which word came first and go from.

Bour geois ˈbu rzh ˌwä also ˈbu zh or ˈbüzh or bu rzh ˈwä. Migos bad and boujee ft lil uzi vert official video youtube. A middle class person. While the word bougie might seem like the epitome of modern slang that isn t the case.