bougie
/ˈbuːʒi/IPA: /B UW1 ZH IY0/
noun
- 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.
- 2
A wax candle.
adjective
- 1
(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).
- 2
Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
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