Word of the Day – Bougie

• Adjective: Bougie
  
  1. informal + usually disparaging : marked by a concern for wealth, possessions, and respectability
  2. “Aspiring to be a higher class than one is. Derived from bourgeois – meaning middle/upper class, traditionally despised by communists.” So in modern-day English, someone who is bougie is creating an air of wealth or upper class status — whether it’s true or not.
• Synonyms:
  1.  bourgeois
  2. pretender
  3. wanna-be
• Usage:
  1. “Jesús and Marcella are so bougie they would drown if it rained.”
• Encountered:
  1. Another student of my iTalki teacher in Guatemala had used this word with him. He asked if I knew what it meant.  Truth is I had never heard it before.  So I am learning English from my Spanish teacher.

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