Usually means: Aspiring to upper-class lifestyle, behaviors.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bougie, bougie: Merriam-Webster
  2. bougie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bougie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bougie: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bougie, bougie: Wordnik
  6. bougie: Wiktionary
  7. bougie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. bougie: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. bougie: Dictionary.com
  10. Bougie (disambiguation), Bougie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bougie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. bougie: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Bougie: Rhymezone
  14. Bougie, bougie (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. bougie: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. Bougie: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. bougie: FreeDictionary.org
  18. bougie: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bougie: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. bougie: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bougie: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. bougie: Medical dictionary
  6. Bougie: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bougie: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bougie: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bougie)

noun:  (medicine) A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
noun:  A wax candle.
adjective:  (slang, 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).
adjective:  (British, Canada, slang) Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
noun:  (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
noun:  A surname from French.
noun:  Former name of Béjaïa, Algeria.
noun:  Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”) [(Cornwall, archaic) A shed for cattle or sheep.]

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