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Yes. The word bougie is a Scrabble US word. The word bougie is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word bougie is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

BOUGIE,

5-letter words (3 found)

BOGIE,BOGUE,BOUGE,

4-letter words (5 found)

BEGO,BIOG,EUOI,GIBE,GOBI,

3-letter words (17 found)

BEG,BIG,BIO,BOG,BOI,BUG,EGO,GEO,GIB,GIE,GIO,GOB,GOE,GUB,GUE,OBE,OBI,

2-letter words (12 found)

BE,BI,BO,GI,GO,GU,IO,OB,OE,OI,OU,UG,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 39 words from bougie according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of bougie

bougie

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bougie (“wax candle”), after the Algerian city Bougie (Béjaïa), and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made. The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen. Doublet of bugia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuːʒi/, enPR: bo͞oʹzhē
  • Rhymes: -uːʒi

Noun

bougie (plural bougies)

  1. (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.
    • 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 12,
      I was not too sure, as a child, what doctors "did," and glimpses of catheters and bougies in their kidney dishes, retractors and speculums, rubber gloves, catgut thread, and forecepts - all this, I think, rather frightened me, though it fascinated me too.
  2. A wax candle.

Etymology 2

From bourgeoisie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuːʒi/, enPR: bo͞oʹzhē

Adjective

bougie (comparative bougier, superlative bougiest)

  1. (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).
  2. (British, Canada, slang) Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
Alternative forms
  • bourgie, boojie, boujee
Synonyms
  • chichi
  • classy
  • high and mighty
  • ritzy
  • saditty
  • snobby
  • snooty
  • posh
Derived terms
  • boughetto
  • bougieness
Related terms
  • bourgie
Translations

Noun

bougie (plural bougies)

  1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

bougie (plural bougies)

  1. Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”)

French

Etymology

From Bougie, the French name for the Algerian town of Béjaïa بجاية, formerly known for exporting candle wax. Attested 1300 for "fine candle wax", and 1493 for "candle made from such wax".

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bu.ʒi/

Noun

bougie f (plural bougies)

  1. candle
  2. spark plug

Derived terms

  • bougeoir
  • bougie à boule

Related terms

  • chandelle
  • cierge

Descendants

  • → Catalan: bugia
  • → English: bougie
  • → Greek: μπουζί (bouzí)
  • → Gulay: bùjì
  • → Romanian: bujie
  • → Spanish: bujía
  • → Turkish: buji

Further reading

  • “bougie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  • “bougie” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

Source: wiktionary.org