bougie

n. 蜡烛, 探条 [化] 瓷制多孔滤筒; 栓剂; 探条; 探子

发音

其它 /ˈbuːʒi/
US /ˈbuːʒi/

词形变化

bougies 复数 bougier 比较级 bougier bougiest bougiest 最高级

别名

bourgie boojie boujee boujée

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.

    医学

    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. 2.

    A wax candle.

  3. 1.

    A person who exhibits bougie behavior.

    贬义 俚语 非裔美国英语
  4. 1.

    Alternative spelling of bowjy (“shed for cattle or sheep”).

adj.
  1. 1.

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

    贬义 俚语
  2. 2.

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

    加拿大 俚语

词源

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 The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen. Doublet of bugia.

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