bougie

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French bougie (“wax candle”), after the Algerian city Bougie (Béjaïa), and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made. The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.

noun

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.
   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.
2. A wax candle.

Etymology 2

From bourgeoisie.

adj

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).
   Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff. 1991, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Season 2, Episode 3, Will Gets a Job, airdate September 23, 1991
   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. 2007, Satire pervades the series of fictional magazine covers, L. Kent Wolgamott, The Lincoln Journal Star, October 12, 2007, http://journalstar.com/entertainment/arts-and-culture/article_ea94f11c-d61d-5940-8eb2-688609281e26.html
   I'll be on the movie screens Magazines and bougie scenes I'm not clean, I'm not pristine I'm no queen, I'm no machine 2007, "Glamorous" by Fergie
   Shangela is kind of bougie, but she's also your homegirl. 2010, RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 2, Episode 1, Gone With the Window, airdate February 1, 2010
   I don't need you or your brand new Benz Or your bougie friends I don't need love lookin' like diamonds Lookin' like diamonds 2010, "Sleazy" by Ke$ha
2. (Britain, Canada, slang) Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

noun

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang, usually derogatory) A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
   All in all, Black Anglo-Saxons today remain a variegated group, and their numbers continue, relentlessly, to multiply. / In the late 1960's 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." 1991 [1965], Nathan Hare, “Introduction”, in The Black Anglo-Saxons, page iii