Hey, look, man, I haven't changed, I'm not gonna change and I'm not down with this bougie stuff.

Called “bougie” when she was growing up, even though she’d never considered herself close to that, Ewing has turned the word around, using it as the title of a fictitious magazine she has dreamed up.

I'll be on the movie screens / Magazines and bougie scenes

Shangela is kind of bougie, but she's also your homegirl.

I don't need you or your brand new Benz / Or your bougie friends

Bougie attitude, I'm from the West End / I want the finer things in life

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.

All in all, Black Anglo-Saxons today remain a variegated group, and their numbers continue, relentlessly, to multiply. / In the late 1960's following the first appearance of this book, The Black Anglo-Saxons, street militants and conscious members of the Black middle class popularly called them "bougies."

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