bougieadjective
/ˈbuː.ʒi//ˈbuː.ʒi/US informal disapprovingbelonging 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.
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- 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 disapprovingsomeone 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 »