The phrase "a bougie" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in informal contexts to describe someone or something that is perceived as pretentious or overly concerned with wealth and social status.
Example: "She always orders the most expensive items on the menu; she's so bougie."
Alternatives: "a snob" or "a posh person".
Preheat your oven — or toaster oven! — to 400 degrees, friends and fam (hi Mom!), because we're about to make a bougie bacon brother.
I am going to use a street term, not that I am a bougie woman by any stretch of the imagination, but I like quality things.
Ray, his bandmate in Questionable Goods, quickly wrote off Charlie's achievements as a betrayal to his own lack of ambition, and said, "He's basically become a bougie nightmare".
Get Busy, Gimme The Light, the Beyoncé-featuring Baby Boy, Breathe with R&B singer Blu Cantrell – these songs became commonplace, at carnival, in a bougie Chelsea bar or a suburban Oceana club.
It is recommended that the number of airway interventions are limited, and blind techniques using a bougie or through supraglottic airway devices have been superseded by video- or fibre-optically guided intubation.
She took to the Russian writers with brio and we're meeting today in a busy London restaurant to discuss her new adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, which she has reimagined and relocated to a bougie, black, middle-class retreat in Michigan called The Hotel Cerise.
Patients and methods: We performed a controlled before-and-after study to assess the ability of a bougie-assisted chest tube insertion technique, compared to a standard blunt dissection technique, to prevent chest tube malposition.
Everything was perfect until I started working at a bougie-ass bakery that sold fancy pastries.
Most clinicians prefer to use over-a-wire bougie dilators (e.g., Savary-Gillard), owing to their lower incidence of esophageal perforation.
"It's a little bougie, but it's pleasant.
They are about the food and the service, and share an air of level-headed professionalism that can verge on the sedate; the atmosphere is, frankly, a bit bougie.
