different between boogie vs bougie

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu??i/, /?b??i/
• Rhymes: -u??i, -??i

Noun

boogie (plural boogies)

1. (informal) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.

   Synonym: booger

2. (slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
   • 1966 Liberation: An Independent Monthly, Volumes 11-12, page 66

     in front of the White House during the crisis over admission of James Meredith to the Univeristy of Mississippi, we were counterpicketed by five members of the American Nazi Party. One of them carried two placards: one saying "Who Needs Niggers?" and the other "Back to the Trees, Boogies!" Finally a passerby, incensed by the sight of the Stars-and-Stripes being carried alongside the Nazi Swastika, assaulted one of the Nazis

3. (informal) Dancing usually prominently exhibiting movements of the buttocks.
4. (skydiving, informal) A large, organised skydiving event.

Derived terms

• boogie board
• boogie box
• boogie-woogie
• boogie down

Translations

Verb

boogie (third-person singular simple present boogies, present participle boogying or boogieing, simple past and past participle boogied)

1. (intransitive) To dance a boogie.
2. (intransitive, informal) To move, walk, leave, exit.

Spanish

Noun

boogie m (plural boogies)

1. boogy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bu??i/, enPR: bo?o?zh?
• Rhymes: -u??i

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bougie (“wax candle”), after the Algerian city Bougie (Béjaïa), and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made. The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.

Noun

bougie (plural bougies)

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.

Etymology 2

From bourgeoisie.

Adjective

bougie (comparative bougier, superlative bougiest)

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, 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).
   • 1991, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Season 2, Episode 3, Will Gets a Job, airdate September 23, 1991:

     Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff.

   • 2007, Satire pervades the series of fictional magazine covers , L. Kent Wolgamott, The Lincoln Journal Star, October 12, 2007, [1]:

     Called “bougie” when she was growing up, even though she’d never considered herself close to that, Ewing has turned the word around, using it as the title of a fictitious magazine she has dreamed up.

   • 2007, "Glamorous" by Fergie:

     I'll be on the movie screens

     Magazines and bougie scenes

     I'm not clean, I'm not pristine

     I'm no queen, I'm no machine

   • 2010, RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 2, Episode 1, Gone With the Window, airdate February 1, 2010:

     Shangela is kind of bougie, but she's also your homegirl.

   • 2010, "Sleazy" by Ke$ha:

     I don't need you or your brand new Benz

     Or your bougie friends

     I don't need love lookin' like diamonds

     Lookin' like diamonds

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

Alternative forms

• bourgie, boojie, boujee

Synonyms

• chichi
• high and mighty
• ritzy
• saditty
• snobby

Derived terms

• bougieness

Related terms

• bourgie

French

Etymology

From Bougie, the French name for the Algerian town of Béjaïa, formerly known for exporting candles.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.?i/

Noun

bougie f (plural bougies)

1. candle
2. spark plug

Derived terms

• bougeoir
• bougie à boule

Descendants

• ? English: bougie
• ? Romanian: bujie

Further reading

• “bougie” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).