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单词 bougie
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bougieadjective

/ˈbuː.ʒi//ˈbuː.ʒi/US informal disapproving

belonging to or typical of the middle class (= a social group between the very rich and the poor), especially in supporting traditional customs and values, or in giving a lot of importance to money, education, and social class:

People in the neighbourhood have strong opinions about inauthentic bougie snobs.

More examples

  • Oat milk, soy milk, almond milk - bougie people like any "milk" that doesn't actually come from a cow.
  • Doing an unpaid internship is kind of bougie because it means, hey, I can afford to work for no money!
  • There was mostly a bougie crowd, but it still felt very community-oriented.
  • It's one of those places where you pay a lot of money but don't get much. Too bougie for me!

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Class & class-consciousness in general

  • arriviste
  • bourgeois
  • class struggle
  • class-conscious
  • classless
  • Hooray Henry
  • inverted snob
  • lower class
  • lowest common denominator
  • marry
  • prole
  • proletarian
  • riff-raff
  • Sloane Ranger
  • snob
  • underclass
  • untouchable
  • upper class
  • upwardly mobile
  • well bred

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bougienoun [ C ]

US informal disapproving

someone who belongs to the middle class (= a social group between the very rich and the poor), especially someone who supports traditional customs and values, or gives a lot of importance to money, education, and social class:

There's nothing bougies love more than dinner parties.

More examples

  • You're such a bougie with your artisan bread and organic veggies.
  • As a black man with degrees from Princeton and Harvard who uses "summer" as a verb to explain what he does on Martha's Vineyard, he is used to being called a bougie.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Class & class-consciousness in general

  • arriviste
  • bourgeois
  • class struggle
  • class-conscious
  • classless
  • Hooray Henry
  • inverted snob
  • lower class
  • lowest common denominator
  • marry
  • prole
  • proletarian
  • riff-raff
  • Sloane Ranger
  • snob
  • underclass
  • untouchable
  • upper class
  • upwardly mobile
  • well bred

See more results »

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