How do you spell bougie or bougwa?

Question

I know I am not spelling the word anywhere near right but how is bougie spelled? It means uppity or arrogant. I believe the word is French. Some pronounce it bougwa. Please help

Answer 1

You mean bourgeouis. It basically means middle class, depending from where you yourself are coming, may be taken to mean either "uppity" or tacky (my mother, who is from Europe, used to drive me crazy using it to mean "lacking class").

Answer 2

Spell Bougie

Answer 3

I'm a translator and proofreader but I don't correct people on the net unless asked to because people that are not linguistically minded just don't care, it's a waste of time, and it just gets on their nerves. That said, poor grammar, spelling, and punctuation is disturbingly prevalent throughout the net, other people see it, and, knowing no better, copy it; and so the vicious circle goes on until poor English is the norm (if it's not already). I would have to quit my job to correct all the mistakes I see in a day's browsing: this page is full of mistakes (not including the intentional ones), as many from the preachers of good grammar as from the defenders of illiteracy; the lack or overuse of the apostrophe being the worst (Two Weeks' Notice or Two Weeks Notice? Yes, even Warner Bros get it wrong, so what hope for the rest of us?). And what can we do when even respected websites like the BBC are rife with mistakes? By the way, the spell check is useful but not perfect. I almost put "quite my job" because my fingers are always racing ahead typing common words before my brain reaches them to tell them what they should actually be typing. The spell check wouldn't have picked that up. It probably wouldn't pick up all poor punctuation either, e.g. the difference between it's and its. This site is actually not that bad compared to many forums I've seen, so perhaps some tolerance should be exercised.

Answer 4

I think you mean Bourgeoisie