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How to pronounce “bougie”
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Pronunciation guide for bougie
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of bougie with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 7 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- TED Talks Daily Book Club: Talk to Me
having one of these bougie Manhattan
- Definition summary
- (medicine) A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
Example 1 of 7
How to pronounce bougie
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Talk to Me
having one of these bougie Manhattan
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “bougie”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (medicine) 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.
- [Adjective]
- (slang, 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).
- (British, Canada, slang) Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
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