different between bouge vs bougie

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?d?/

Etymology 1

Alteration of bouche.

Noun

bouge (uncountable)

1. (now historical) The right to rations at court, granted to the king's household, attendants etc.
   • 1612, Ben Jonson, Love Restored

     They […] made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady.

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p, 29:

     Officials carrying lists of servants receiving ‘bouge of court’ – wages and board – carried out identity checks […]

Etymology 2

Variant of bulge.

Verb

bouge (third-person singular simple present bouges, present participle bouging, simple past and past participle bouged)

1. To swell out.
2. To bilge.

   • Their shippe bouged.

Anagrams

• Bogue, bogue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?/

Etymology 1

From Old French bouge, bolge (“sack, purse”), from Gaulish bolg? (“bag, sack”).

Noun

bouge m (plural bouges)

1. hovel; dive
2. bulge, protuberance

Derived terms

• bouge de tonneau
• bouge d'un mur
• bougette

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bouge

1. first-person singular present indicative of bouger
2. third-person singular present indicative of bouger
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bouger
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of bouger
5. second-person singular imperative of bouger

Anagrams

• bogue

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• bolge, boulge

Etymology

Probably a borrowing from Latin bulga, itself from Gaulish bolg? (“bag, sack”).

Noun

bouge m (oblique plural bouges, nominative singular bouges, nominative plural bouge)

1. sack; purse; small bag

Derived terms

• bougette
  • French: bougette
  • ? Middle English: bogett, bouget, bowgette
    • English: budget

Descendants

• French: bouge
• ?? Italian: bolgia
• ? Middle English: bulge, boulge
  • English: bulge
• ? Middle English: bouge
  • English: budge

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bouge)

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 The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.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).