bougie

What it means

1. 1.

   Pretentiously upmarket; aspiring to luxury. Applied to tastes, places and people, usually with affectionate mockery.

In use

• That's a very bougie grocery store.

• I'm feeling bougie, let's get the good cheese.

Where it comes from

Clipped from bourgeois. Within AAVE it originally carried a pointed class critique of Black people seen as distancing themselves from their origins; the mainstream use has largely flattened that into 'fancy'.

Other forms

Spellings and variants:

boujee