bougie vs dressy

bougie

adj
  • Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1. 

  • Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery). 

noun
  • A wax candle. 

  • A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie. 

  • A person who exhibits bougie behavior. 

dressy

adj
  • Elegant, smart, or stylish. 

  • Fond of dressing up; keen on fashion. 

How often have the words bougie and dressy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )