Bougie vs. Boogie — What's the Difference?

A thin, flexible surgical instrument for exploring or dilating a passage of the body.

Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm, "groove" or pattern used in blues which was originally played on the piano in boogie-woogie music. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments.

Exhibiting qualities attributed to the middle class, especially pretentiousness or conventionality

To dance to rock music.

A slender, flexible, cylindrical instrument that is inserted into a bodily canal, such as the urethra, to dilate, examine, or medicate.

To get going; leave

See suppository.

To move quickly

A wax candle.

Strongly rhythmic rock music.

Bourgeois

Boogie-woogie.

(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.

(informal) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril cavity.

A wax candle.

A black person.

A person who exhibits bougie behavior.

(informal) A style of swing dance.

Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery.

A large, organised skydiving event.

Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

(intransitive) To dance a boogie.

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 It was originally made of waxed linen rolled into cylindrical form.

To move, walk, leave, exit.

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.

An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano).

A black person; - offensive and disparaging.

To do a lively dance, often with the two partners not touching, to the accompaniment of rock music.

An instrumental version of the blues (especially for piano)