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bourgie, a. and n. slang (chiefly U.S., orig. in African-American usage). Chiefly depreciative.
Brit. |ˈbuːʒi|, |ˈbɔːʒi|, U.S. |ˈbuʒi|
Forms: 19– boojie, 19– boojy, 19– boozhie, 19– bougie, 19– bourgie
[‹ bourg- (in either bourgeois n.1 or bourgeois adj.) + -y suffix6; compare -y suffix1.]
A. adj. Bourgeois, middle-class; exhibiting characteristics frequently associated with the (white) middle class, such as conventionality, materialism, or elitism.
In early use chiefly of African-Americans.
1967Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) 31 Oct. 4/3 Boozhie—the short form of the word, bourgeois. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 30 Boojy, bourgeois. 1982G. Naylor Women of Brewster Place (1983) iv. 82 Those bourgie schools were counterrevolutionary. 1993B. Cross It's not about Salary 115, I did my poetry to nothing but a black audience once, a ‘bougie’ audience, and they were like what do you mean by that, honkie and stuff? 2001Village Voice (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 85/2 I've recently been opening up the homestead every weekend for—shudder—dinner parties, that most bourgie (but fun) contrivance and first sign of creeping lameness.
B. n. A person, esp. an African-American, regarded as bourgeois or middle-class; a bourgie person.
1980E. A. Folb Runnin' down some Lines 230 Boojie, bourgeois black person. 1992Time Out 22–29 Apr. 69/2 Picaresque rogues, loveable for their solidarity against everyday dreariness. In effect, we're coerced into liking them because if we don't, then we must be blinkered, tight-arsed bourgies ourselves. 1994New Yorker 5 Sept. 93/1 Ray and Kelly are mocked (east of the river) as ‘bougies’; for some upper-class blacks (west of the river), Barry is a ‘Bama’, an unpolished Southerner come to the big city. 1999Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 23 Apr. c5 It allows the perversely inclined Canadian director to indulge his passion for making the earnest bourgies in the audience blow their cookies into their decaf cappuccinos. |