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Rarebougie
The correct spelling is bougie.
How to pronounce bougie
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.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.A wax candle.
adjective
- 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.Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
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