Bougie vs. Bourgeois — What's the Difference?

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

A person belonging to the middle class.

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

A person whose attitudes and behavior are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class.

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

In Marxist theory, a member of the property-owning class; a capitalist.

See suppository.

Of, relating to, or typical of the middle class, especially in holding conventional attitudes and materialistic values.

A wax candle.

Of or relating to the middle class, their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.

Bourgeois

(historical) Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.

(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.

(Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.

A wax candle.

The middle class.

A person who exhibits bougie behavior.

(rare) An individual member of the middle class.

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

A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.

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

(history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.

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 It was originally made of waxed linen rolled into cylindrical form.

(Marxism) A capitalist, an exploiter of the proletariat.

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.

A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.

(transitive) To make bourgeois.

A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.

Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

A capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

A member of the middle class

(according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class;

Belonging to the middle class