How To Spell Bougie

In 2016 a hit hip hop song by the trio migos bad and boujee introduced a new take on and spelling of bougie.

How to spell bougie. Bour geois ˈbu rzh ˌwä also ˈbu zh or ˈbüzh or bu rzh ˈwä. Definition of bourgeois entry 2 of 4 1 a. Hundreds of years ago bourgeois meant middle class but today the word and its slangy clipped form bougie can mean something more negative. In any case a lot of people don t know that it derives from the aristocratic uppity french word bourgeois where the ge sound has no exact equivalent in english. Uːʒi etymology 1.

Migos bad and boujee ft lil uzi vert official video youtube. Plural bougies also bourgies. So praytell what is the difference between bougie boujee and bourgie bourgeois. Borrowed from french bougie wax candle after the algerian city bougie and the tapered hand dipped candles it made the medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen. How to pronounce bourgeois audio.

American english is not always as it appears to be. A listener recently wrote in to ask about the word bougie he d heard it being used to mean something elevated or high class. Well the best way to answer this would be chronologically. Definition of bougie entry 2 of 4 informal usually disparaging. A middle class person.

This may be why there are different spellings for this word. While the word bougie might seem like the epitome of modern slang that isn t the case. In fact dare i say the word bougie is actually derived from a french word with hundreds of years of. Fancy pretentious and so on. Bourgeois although it has produced some of the world s most dedicated and respected freedom fighters the black middle class as a group is characterized in the public mind as pretentious conspicuous consumers.

Plural bourgeois ˈbu rzh ˌwä z also ˈbu zh or ˈbüzh or bu rzh ˈwä z how to pronounce bourgeois audio. English pronunciation. Belonging to or typical of the middle class a social group between the very rich and the. We ll start with which word came first and go from.