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Bougie and boujee are similar terms with subtle but significant differences.

Both ultimately come from the 16th-century French term bourgeoisie (literally, “the burghers”), the emerging merchant class whose new wealth conferred them social status and privilege. Over the centuries, bourgeoisie and its adjective, bourgeois, came to stand for “middle class.” By the late 18th century, the term was used to disparage someone as materialistic, conventional, and complacent.

By the 1970s, bourgeois[2] was shortened in slang to bougie, mocking something as consumeristic, pretentious, and suburban, again with a “middle class” subtext. In the 2010s, bougie was further generalized to “undesirable” or “unfair.”