Bogie vs. Bougie — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bogie and Bougie
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Bogie
A bogie ( BOH-ghee) (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles. Bogies take various forms in various modes of transport.
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Bougie
A thin, flexible surgical instrument for exploring or dilating a passage of the body.
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Bogie
One of several wheels or supporting and aligning rollers inside the tread of a tractor or tank.
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Bougie
Exhibiting qualities attributed to the middle class, especially pretentiousness or conventionality
The candlelit cocktail party was pretty bougie
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Bogie
Chiefly British See truck.
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Bougie
A slender, flexible, cylindrical instrument that is inserted into a bodily canal, such as the urethra, to dilate, examine, or medicate.
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Bogie
Variant of bogey.
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Bougie
See suppository.
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Bogie
(also bgē, bgē) An evil or mischievous spirit; a hobgoblin.
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Bougie
A wax candle.
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Bogie
(also bgē, bgē) A cause of annoyance or harassment.
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Bougie
Bourgeois
Opted for a mom-and-pop diner over a more bougie restaurant.
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Bogie
A golf score of one stroke over par.
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Bougie
(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.
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Bogie
Chiefly British The number of strokes that a good player is likely to need to finish a golf hole or course.
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Bougie
A wax candle.
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Bogie
(Slang) An unidentified flying aircraft.
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Bougie
A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
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Bogie
(Slang) A detective or police officer.
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Bougie
Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery.
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Bogie
Chiefly British Slang A piece of dried or semisolid nasal mucus; a booger.
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Bougie
Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
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Bogie
To play (a hole in golf) scoring one stroke over par.
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Bougie
A long, flexible instrument, that is introduced into the urethra, esophagus, etc., to remove obstructions, or for the other purposes. It was originally made of waxed linen rolled into cylindrical form.
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Bogie
(Northern England) A low, hand-operated truck, generally with four wheels, used for transporting objects or for riding on as a toy; a trolley.
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Bougie
A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.
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Bogie
One of two sets of wheels under a locomotive or railcar; also, a structure with axles and wheels under a locomotive, railcar, or semi which provides support and reduces vibration for the vehicle.
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Bogie
A set of wheels attached to one of an aircraft's landing gear, or the structure connecting the wheels in one such set.
Although most A320s have two wheels on each of their main gear, a few built for the Indian market have four-wheel bogies, halving the amount of weight on each wheel and allowing the aircraft to use runways that couldn't withstand the ground pressure from a standard A320.
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Bogie
A railway carriage.
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Bogie
A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
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Bogie
Alternative spelling of bogey
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Bogie
A ghost, goblin, or other hostile supernatural creature.
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Bogie
A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
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Bogie
An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.
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Bogie
(golf) A score of one over par on a hole.
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Bogie
A piece of dried mucus in or removed from the nostril.
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Bogie
A four-wheeled truck, having a certain amount of play around a vertical axis, used to support in part a locomotive on a railway track.
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Bogie
An evil spirit
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Bogie
An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
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