UnscrambleTheWord.co

bougie

Is it a Scrabble word? See definition, points, and words you can make.

Is bougie a Scrabble word?

Yes, bougie is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of bougie?

Definition

noun (English)

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.Examples: ""There, as my lord, with achromatic glass, / "O'erlooks St. James's Park, and on the grass, / "Beneath his mansion's half-closed window spies / "Two crouching urchins' gross obscenities, / "He turns his eager gaze, adjusts the screw, / "And brings their unwashed nudities in view. / "That spot, concealed by two o'er hanging hills, / "Foul sweat and fœtid excrement distils, / "Yet frowsy, there the pipe-clayed soldier sports, / "And bishops hold episcopalian courts. / "'Tis there the Bath empiric's finger guides, / "The oiled bougie ; and as the dildo slides / "Besmeared, to meet last night's descending meal, / "Oft makes the strictures he pretends to heal."; "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."

adj (English)

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).Examples: "Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff."; "Called “bougie” when she was growing up, even though she’d never considered herself close to that, Ewing has turned the word around, using it as the title of a fictitious magazine she has dreamed up."; "I'll be on the movie screens / Magazines and bougie scenes"Synonyms: chichi, classy, high and mighty, ritzy, saditty, snobby, snooty, poshderogatoryslangusually

2. (British, Canada, slang) Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.BritishCanadaslang

noun (English)

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) A person who exhibits bougie behavior.Examples: "All in all, Black Anglo-Saxons today remain a variegated group, and their numbers continue, relentlessly, to multiply. / In the late 1960's^([sic – meaning 1960s]) following the first appearance of this book, The Black Anglo-Saxons, street militants and conscious members of the Black middle class popularly called them "bougies.""derogatoryslangusually

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "bougie"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "bougie"?

Scrabble
9 points
B3
O1
U1
G2
I1
E1
Words With Friends
12 points
B4
O1
U2
G3
I1
E1

Browse related word lists

← Unscramble different letters