Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BOUGIE

---

Definitions of BOUGIE

1. A wax candle.
2. (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.
3. (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).
4. (British, Canada, slang) Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
5. (chiefly, AAVE, slang, usually, derogatory) A person who exhibits bougie behavior.
6. Former name of Béjaïa, Algeria.
7. A French surname from French.

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

---

Examples of Using BOUGIE in a Sentence

• Councillors: Serge Thomassin, Tom Redmond, Jean Perron, Esther Fortin, Manon Bougie, Jean-Pierre Fortier, Olivier Duval, Renaud Fortier.
• Bertrand's family may have claimed descent from Aquin, the legendary Muslim king of Bougie in Africa (Viking in effect, the legend conflates Saracens and Arabs with Normans and places Aiquin's origins in the north country) a conceit derived from the Roman d'Aquin, a thirteenth-century French chanson de geste from Brittany.
• Later leaders (Ali ibn Ishaq and Yahya) made a determined attempt to reconquer the Maghreb (and in particular Ifriqiya), taking Bougie, Constantine and Algiers, and conquering most of modern Tunisia from about 1180 onwards.
• In 1090, he left the Kal'a (Beni Hammad Fort), the traditional capital of the Hammadids, to settle in Béjaïa (Bougie) with his troops and his court, He left the region because of the destruction caused by the arrival of the Banu Hilal.
• Designer in particular of the large-gauge canal between Bordeaux and Narbonne, the road between Sétif and Bougie, and of the railway lines connecting Philippeville to Constantine, Algeria, Algiers to Constantine, and Athens to Piraeus, he also supervised the construction of a rail link between Veracruz and Córdoba, Mexico, losing two-thirds of his workers to tropical disease.
• Fibonacci, an Italian mathematician who had studied in Béjaïa (Bougie), Algeria, promoted the Arabic numeral system in Europe with his book Liber Abaci, which was published in 1202.
• Bougie dilatation involves passage of long dilating tubes of increasing size down the esophagus to stretch the area of narrowing, either over a guidewire passed into the stomach by endoscopy (the Savary-Gillard system) or using mercury-weighted dilators (the Maloney system).
• In order to open the stricture, a surgeon can insert a bougie – a weighted tube used to dilate the constricted areas in the esophagus.
• Four hours later Menges was taken in tow by HMS Aspirant, and later on 3 May reached Bougie, Algeria to disembark her dead and wounded.
• The detailed case histories of these patients discussed tools and techniques used at the hospital including: cephalotripsy, the use of chloroform as an anesthetic, the use of opium for pain treatment, the use of a Barnes' dilator, the Crede's maneuver, and bougie labor induction.
• Knights from Catí took part in the conquest of Mazalquivir, Oran and Bougie, in the ship belonging to the Bayle of Morella, despite the fact that the town of Catí, along with other neighboring villages, began in 1292 a lawsuit against Morella.
• At least two main branches of Sufi maraboutism can be identified:- the Shadhiliyya (strong in Marrakesh, the Sous, the Rif and Tlemcen), was more radical and oppositional to the established Marinid-Wattasid authorities, while the Qadiriyya (influential in Fez, Touat, Algiers and Bougie) was more moderate and cooperative.
• Bougie also illustrated the cover artwork of several Canadian musicians, including Harmonium's Les cinq saisons, René Lussier's Le trésor de la langue, Le corps de l'ouvrage, Au diable vert, and Le contrat (with Gilles Gobeil), and Conventum's Le bureau central des utopies and 77-79 + Réédition.
• On December 10, 1942, Corallo sailed from Cagliari to patrol an area between Bona and Bizerta with a task of trying to penetrate Bougie harbor during the night of December 13 and destroying any ships she would have found there.
• Under the orders of the Duke d'Aumale, he took part to the columns in the Aurès, Sétif, Némentcha, sector de Collo, Bougie, Guelma, at the head of the 1st battalion against the Ziban and removed along with his battalion, the ksar de M’Chounech in March 1844.
• Troops were assembled at Constantine, Blida, Miliana, Orléansville (modern-day Chlef), Maison Carrée (modern day El Harrach), Tizi Ouzou, Sétif, Bougie (modern-day Béjaïa) and Guelma in French Algeria.
• By 1920, its Algerian branch network extended to Affreville (now Khemis Miliana), Aïn Beïda, Aïn Témouchent, Algiers, Aumale (now Sour El-Ghozlane), Batna, Blida, Boghari, Bône (now Annaba), Bordj Bou Arréridj, Bordj Bouira, Bordj Menaïel, Boufarik, Bougie, Colea, Constantine, Djidjelli, Guelma, Jemmapes (now Azzaba), Khenchela, Maison-Carrée (now El Harrach), Marengo (now Hadjout), Mascara, Médéa, Mostaganem, Orléansville (now Chlef), Palikao (now Tighennif), Philippeville (now Skikda), Relizane, Rio-Salado (now El Malah), Saïda, Saint-Arnaud (now El Eulma), Saint-Denis-de-Sig, Sétif, Sidi Bel Abbès, Soukahra, Tiaret, Tlemcen, and Vialar (now Tissemsilt).
• This plan included multiple lines, such as the Algiers-Oran, Algiers-Constantine, Constantine-Bône with a branch line to Philippeville, Tlemcen-Mascara via Sidi Bel Abbès, and various branch lines to Mostaganem, Ténès, and Bougie (Béjaïa).
• The bougie, which ranges from 38 to 40 French in size, is inserted down to the pylorus under direct visualisation, serving as a mold around which the stomach is stapled and resected.

Page preparation took: 479.55 ms.