Definition of "bougie" in английский

noun

1. (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.

   • 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 12, I was not too sure, as a child, what doctors "did," and glimpses of catheters and bougies in their kidney dishes, retractors and speculums, rubber gloves, catgut thread, and forecepts - all this, I think, rather frightened me, though it fascinated me too.

2. A wax candle.

adjective

1. (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).

2. (British, Canada, slang) Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

noun

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”).