A surname from French. / Former name of Béjaïa, Algeria.

(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. / A wax candle.

(chiefly African-American Vernacular, 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).

(chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) A person who exhibits bougie behavior.

plural of bougie

(African-American Vernacular) The quality of being bougie.

plural of Bougie

plural of bougienage

(medicine) The use of a bougie.

superlative form of bougie: most bougie