1. Belonging to the middle class
   "The restaurant had a bougie atmosphere that attracted young professionals";
   - bourgeois, bourgie [N. Amer, informal]
    
2. Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
   "a bougie mentality";
   - bourgeois, conservative, materialistic, bourgie [N. Amer, informal]

1. A long, slender rod made of gelatin or another substance that melts at body temperature, often impregnated with medicine for insertion into body cavities
   "The doctor used a bougie to dilate the patient's urethra"
    
2. [informal] A candle or wax taper
   "They lit bougies around the bathtub for a relaxing atmosphere"
    
3. [US, informal] A person perceived as bourgeois or aspiring to a higher social status
   "He's such a bougie, always bragging about his expensive vacations"

Derived forms: bougies

See also: middle-class

Encyclopedia: Bougie, Algeria