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bougie

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noun

IPA: /ˈbuːʒi/

Say it like: Bow-jee

The correct spelling is bougie. A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.

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Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
  2. 2.A wax candle.

adjective

  1. 1.(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).
  2. 2.Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

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