bougie vs tinsel

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. 

tinsel

adj
  • Apparently beautiful and costly but having little value; superficially attractive; gaudy, showy, tawdry. 

verb
  • To ornament (fabric, etc.) by weaving into it thread of gold, silver, or some other shiny material. 

  • To deck out (a place or something) with showy but cheap ornaments; to make gaudy. 

  • To give (something) a false or superficial attractiveness. 

noun
  • A thin, shiny foil for ornamental purposes which is of a material made of metal or resembling metal; especially, narrow glittering strips of such a material, often strung on to thread, and traditionally at Christmastime draped on Christmas trees, hung from balustrades or ceilings, or wrapped around objects as a decoration. 

  • Anything shining and gaudy; especially something superficially shiny and showy, or having a false lustre, and more pretty than valuable. 

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