- relating to or characteristic of a person who indulges in some of the luxuries and comforts of a fancy lifestyle: He spends too much on bougie stuff he can’t afford.
- relating to or characteristic of a person who aspires to the upper middle class, especially when regarded as being elitist or snobbish: The bougie folks all left the old neighborhood and bought houses out there where their kids'll go to “good schools,” whatever that means.
- relating to or characteristic of a person who flaunts newly acquired wealth without necessarily embracing the cultural values and pretensions of the upper middle class: that bougie feeling when you’re drinking high-end champagne—out of a red plastic cup.
- Medicine/Medical.
- a slender, flexible instrument introduced into passages of the body, especially the urethra, for dilating, examining, medicating, etc.
- a suppository.
- a wax candle.
- a long slender semiflexible cylindrical instrument for inserting into body passages, such as the rectum or urethra, to dilate structures, introduce medication, etc
