bougie
Pronunciation:
/ˈbuːʒi/noun
Definitions
A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
A wax candle.
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/ˈbuːʒi/Definitions
A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
A wax candle.
/ˈbuːʒi/Definitions
(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).
Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.