Definitions for bougie

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bougie bou·gie

Spelling: [boo-jee, -zhee, boo-zhee]

IPA: /ˈbu dʒi, -ʒi, buˈʒi/

Bougie is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in bougie (begiou).

Definitions for bougie

noun

1. Medicine/Medical. a slender, flexible instrument introduced into passages of the body, especially the urethra, for dilating, examining, medicating, etc. a suppository.
2. a wax candle.

adjective

1. relating to or characteristic of a person who aspires to the upper middle class or a fancy lifestyle:
2. haughty; elitist; snobbish.

Origin of bougie

1745-55; French, after Bougie (Arabic Bujāyah), town in Algeria, center of the wax trade

Examples for bougie

(c) The tip of the bougie may break off whilst in the Eustachian tube.

The mere passage of the bougie will often effect immediate relaxation of the spasm.

At bougie they seemed to have left it all to Allah, with the usual result.

By this you will see that bougie must wait until I call that way again.

He refitted the fireship at sea, and then went on, reaching bougie on the 2nd of May.

For this purpose the bougie may be marked at its outer extremity.

It is the site of bougie, and its environs, that make its charms.

This consists in the passage of a suitable instrument, a sound or bougie of proper size, two or three times a week.

As for bougie, these African villages are built but for bright sunlight.

The destruction of the ships at bougie was a severe blow to the Algerines.