different between bourgie vs bourgeois

English

Etymology

From bourgeoisie or bourgeois, from French; compare bougie.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bourgie (plural bourgies)

1. (informal, derogatory) A member of the bourgeoisie.

Adjective

bourgie (comparative more bourgie, superlative most bourgie)

1. Alternative form of bougie.

   Although there were more reasonably priced bottles of wine, they chose an expensive Malbec not for its flavor, but for its bourgie appeal.

   • 2011, Jay-Z and Kanye West, "Niggas in Paris", Watch the Throne:

     Bourgie girl / Grab her hand / Fuck that bitch, she don't wanna dance

   • 2012, Sarah Nicole Prickett, "Kristen Stewart should not have apologized, and here's why", The Globe and Mail, 29 July 2012:

     It takes on faith a heterogeneous, bourgie morality and gives the lie that tween girls – or, more accurately, their movie-ticket-buying parents – want to hear.

References

• "American Skin" by Gerald Early.
• "Hazy Halcyon Days of Pot and Puberty" by Charles McGrath

Anagrams

• bougier

English

Alternative forms

• burgeois

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bourgeois (“a class of citizens who were wealthier members of the Third Estate”), from Old French burgeis (“town dweller”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold; city”) (whence borough). Doublet of burgess; compare also burgish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b???.w??/, /?b???.w??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bu(?)?.?w??/, /?bu(?)?.w??/, /?b???.w??/

Adjective

bourgeois (comparative more bourgeois, superlative most bourgeois)

1. Of or relating to the middle class, (often derogatory) their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

   bourgeois opinion

2. (historical) Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
3. (Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

Synonyms

• (conventional, conservative): square

Derived terms

• bougie
• bourgeoisification
• bourgeoisify
• bourgie
• de-bourgeoisify

Translations

Noun

bourgeois (usually uncountable, plural bourgeois)

1. (politics, collectively, usually in the plural) The middle class.
2. (rare) An individual member of the middle class.
3. (usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
4. (historical) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
5. (Marxism) A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.

Related terms

• bourgeoise
• bourgeoisie
• embourgeoisement

Translations

Verb

bourgeois (third-person singular simple present bourgeoises, present participle bourgeoising, simple past and past participle bourgeoised)

1. (transitive) To make bourgeois.

Further reading

• "bourgeois" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 45.

Etymology 2

From Middle English burjois, from French Bourgois, probably from Bourges (“the French city”) + -ois (“forming adjectives”) but possibly from bourgeois above or from Jean de Bouregois who worked as a printer in Rouen c. 1500.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b???d???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b???d???s/, enPR: b?r-?jois

Noun

bourgeois (uncountable)

1. (printing, dated) A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.

Synonyms

• (Continental printing): galliard

Derived terms

• double bourgeois

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French bourgeois.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bur???a?/
• Hyphenation: bour?geois
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

bourgeois m (plural bourgeois, diminutive bourgeoistje n)

1. bourgeois

Related terms

• bourgeoisie
• burgerij

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: borjuis

French

Etymology

From Old French borgeis (“town dweller”), from borc (“fortified place, town”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“fortress”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r???s (“fortified elevation”). The path from Proto-Germanic to Old French is unclear. Perhaps via Frankish *burg or Late Latin burgus, or possibly both, and probably through the Late Latin [Term?] intermediate burgensis. Compare Italian borghese, Portuguese burguês, Spanish burgués.

Synchronically analysable as bourg +? -ois.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?.?wa/

Adjective

bourgeois (feminine singular bourgeoise, masculine plural bourgeois, feminine plural bourgeoises)

1. bourgeois

Derived terms

• bourgeoisement
• embourgeoiser

Noun

bourgeois m (plural bourgeois, feminine bourgeoise)

1. member of the middle class
2. bourgeois

Synonyms

• bourge (slang)

Derived terms

• bourgeoisie
• parloir aux bourgeois

Descendants

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

From French bourgeois, name for a wealthy class of French citizens in the late 18th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?r??u?a?/, [b?????a?], [?b??.?u?a?], [b???-] (standard; basic form)
• IPA^(key): /b?r??u?a?z-/ (standard; inflected forms)
• IPA^(key): /b?r??u?a?(s-)/ (often in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

Adjective

bourgeois (comparative bourgeoiser, superlative am bourgeoisesten)

1. bourgeois
2. snobbish, elitist (in the context of the upper middle class)

Declension

Further reading

• “bourgeois” in Duden online