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Definitions for Bougie

[1] Medicine/Medical . a slender, flexible instrument introduced into passages of the body, especially the urethra, for dilating, examining, medicating, etc. a suppository.
[2] a wax candle.
[3] relating to or characteristic of a person who aspires to the upper middle class or a fancy lifestyle: He spends too much on bougie stuff he can’t afford.
[4] haughty; elitist; snobbish.
[5] med a long slender semiflexible cylindrical instrument for inserting into body passages, such as the rectum or urethra, to dilate structures, introduce medication, etc

Words related to Bougie

torch, dip, flambeau

Words nearby Bougie

bough, boughed, boughpot, bought, boughten, bougie, bougienage, bouguer anomaly, bouguer correction, bouguereau, bouillabaisse

Origin of Bougie

21965–70, Americanism ; shortening and alteration of bourgeois1

Word origin for Bougie

C18: from French, originally a wax candle from Bougie (Bujiya), Algeria

Synonyms for Bougie

torch, dip, flambeau, rushlight