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boujee

boujee is the alternative spelling of bougie.

Meaning of bougie

Adjective

bougie (comparative bougier, superlative bougiest)

  1. (derogatory, slang, usually, African-American Vernacular) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).
    • Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff.1991 September 23, “Will Gets a Job”, in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, season 2, episode 3
  2. (Canada, UK, slang) Fancy or good-looking, without connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness.

See all 7 meanings of bougie

Forms of boujee

comparativemore boujee
superlativemost boujee

Questions about boujee

What is boujee the alternative spelling of?
Boujee is the alternative spelling of bougie.

Words near boujee in the dictionary

  1. bouillons
  2. bouillotte
  3. bouj
  4. bouja
  5. Boujailles
  6. boujee
  7. boujée
  8. bouk
  9. Boukedes
  10. boukha
  11. Boukhechba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boujee (page history and authors); bougie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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