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candle
English
Etymology
From Middle English candel, from Old English candel (“candle”), borrowed from Latin cand?la (“candle”), from Latin cande? (“be white, bright, shining”, verb); see candid. Doublet of candela and chandelle.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kænd?l/, /?kændl?/
- Rhymes: -ænd?l
Noun
candle (plural candles)
- A light source consisting of a wick embedded in a solid, flammable substance such as wax, tallow, or paraffin.
- The protruding, removable portion of a filter, particularly a water filter.
- (obsolete) A unit of luminous intensity, now replaced by the SI unit candela.
- (forestry) A fast-growing, light-colored, upward-growing shoot on a pine tree in the spring. As growth slows in summer, the shoot darkens and is no longer conspicuous.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: kandra
- ? Chichewa: kandulo
Translations
Verb
candle (third-person singular simple present candles, present participle candling, simple past and past participle candled)
- (embryology, transitive) To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source.
- (pottery, transitive) To dry (greenware) prior to the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware.
- (transitive) To check (an item, such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye.
Further reading
- candle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- candle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Declan, calend, lanced
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bougie
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 The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.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)
- (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.
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 12,
- A wax candle.
Etymology 2
From bourgeoisie.
Adjective
bougie (comparative bougier, superlative bougiest)
- (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
- 1991, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Season 2, Episode 3, Will Gets a Job, airdate September 23, 1991:
- (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)
- candle
- 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).
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