0 belonging to or typical of the middle class (= a social group between the very rich and the poor), especially in giving a lot of importance to money, education, and social class, or in liking and wanting expensive and unusual things:
1 someone who belongs to the middle class (= a social group between the very rich and the poor), especially someone who supports traditional customs and values, or gives a lot of importance to money, education, and social class, or likes and wants expensive and unusual things:
2 a thin medical instrument that can bend, put into a part of the body in order to open it up, examine it, or treat it :
Oat milk, soy milk, almond milk - bougie people like any "milk" that doesn't actually come from a cow.
Doing an unpaid internship is kind of bougie because it means, hey, I can afford to work for no money!
There was mostly a bougie crowd, but it still felt very community-oriented.
You're such a bougie with your artisan bread and organic veggies.
As a black man with degrees from Princeton and Harvard who uses "summer" as a verb to explain what he does on Martha's Vineyard, he is used to being called a bougie.
Several attempts to force the endotracheal tube over a gum elastic bougie were unsuccessful.
For endoscopic bougie dilation of the stricture, a guide wire will be placed in the stomach.
Oesophageal dilation by the Savary-Gaillard bougie technique is an effective method for treating oesophageal stricture.
