Meaning & use
Bougey
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Aspiring to or affecting a higher social class than one actually belongs to; pretentiously upscale (an informal variant spelling of 'bougie').
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The new cafe felt a little bougey with its ten-dollar lattes and marble counters.
She teased her friend for going full bougey with the designer water bottle.
A note on using this word
A slangy respelling of 'bougie,' itself a clipped form of 'bourgeois'; both spellings circulate widely online, with 'bougie' being the more standard dictionary form.
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