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单词 bourgie
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bourgien.adj.

Brit. /ˈbʊəʒi/, /ˈbɔːʒi/, /ˈbuːʒi/, U.S. /ˈbuʒi/, /ˈbərʒi/
Forms: 1900s– boojie, 1900s– boojy, 1900s– boozhie, 1900s– bougie, 1900s– bourgie.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: bourgeois n.1
Etymology: Shortened < bourgeois n.1 (compare -y suffix1, -y suffix6). Compare earlier booshway n.
slang (chiefly U.S., originally in African-American usage). Chiefly depreciative.
A. n.
A person, esp. an African American, regarded as bourgeois or middle-class, or as exhibiting characteristics attributed to the middle class, such as conventionality, materialism, or pretentiousness.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > middle class or bourgeoisie > person
bourgeois1704
gigman1830
haut bourgeois1846
petit bourgeois1851
petty bourgeois1871
middle-classer1886
middle-middle1926
Middletowner1937
middle1955
bourgie1966
1966 Life 10 June 100 a/3 They view the whole civil rights establishment with contempt..because it speaks not for the black man but for the black bourgeoisie—‘boozhies’, as they are known in ghetto circles.
1968 Negro Digest Nov. 64/2 Instead of recognizing differences among members but valuing the common cause, individuals will begin to call some people ‘Uncle Toms’, ‘bourgeois’ or ‘bourgies’, conservatives, foot-shufflers, black Caucasians and a variety of other uncomplimentary names.
1992 Time Out 22 Apr. 69/2 We're coerced into liking them because if we don't, then we must be blinkered, tight-arsed bourgies ourselves.
1999 Washington 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.
2011 D. L. Lucas Belle in Brooklyn 190 Bourgie, you got some hood in you, huh?
B. adj.
Bourgeois, middle-class; exhibiting characteristics attributed to the middle class.Originally used chiefly of and by African Americans.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [adjective] > middle-class or bourgeois
moyen1481
middling1631
bourgeois1761
small bourgeois1832
lower middle class1835
middle class1836
bourgeoisistic1848
petty bourgeois1864
upper middle class1872
petit bourgeois1887
lace curtain1928
haut bourgeois1940
bourgie1968
1968 Ramparts 26 Oct. 29/1 Silly-ass Kenneth Freeman..said some bull crap about ‘Huey P. Newton come from a bourgie family.’
1982 G. Naylor Women of Brewster Place (1983) iv. 82 Those bourgie schools were counterrevolutionary.
1993 B. 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?
2001 Village 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.
2011 S. Poulson-Bryant VIPs 21 Them bourgie niggas don't want nothing to do with me.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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