bougie

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, after the Algerian city Bougie , and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made. The medical instruments were originally made from waxed linen.

Noun

 * 1)  A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) A wax candle.
 * 1) A wax candle.

Etymology 2
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people.
 * 2)  Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
 * 1)  Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
 * 1)  Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
 * 1)  Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
 * 1)  Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
 * 1)  Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
 * 1)  Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.
 * 1)  Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

Noun

 * 1)  A person who exhibits bougie behavior.

Etymology
From, the French name for the Algerian town of , formerly known for exporting candle wax. Attested 1300 for "fine candle wax", and 1493 for "candle made from such wax".

Noun

 * 1) candle
 * 2) spark plug