bougie vs spruce

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. 

spruce

adj
  • Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person). 

verb
  • To tease. 

  • To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance). 

  • To arrange neatly; tidy up. 

noun
  • Made of the wood of the spruce. 

  • The wood of a spruce. 

  • Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir. 

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