WEtv Orders Reality Series ‘Bold & Bougie’ Featuring Malaysia Pargo, Tameka Foster & Princess Banton-LoftersFrom the headline of this article at Deadline.
上記の文で、bougieの意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "bougie" mean?
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解答
意味:英辞郎によると、
[形容詞]一般的に、人等をみくびって使用されることが多いが、問題の見出しのようにポジティブに使われることが多くなっている感じがします。
主に米俗〉〔実際には身分が低いのに〕上流階級気取りの、お高くとまった◆【語源】bourgeoisie(ブルジョアジー、中産階級)から
また、下記英語の定義にあるように名詞としても使用されます。
なお、問題の見出しのbougieのスペルの他に、bourgie, boojie, boujeeと表記されることもあります。
Answer
According to Merriam-Webster:Adjective
informal + usually disparaging: marked by a concern for wealth, possessions, and respectability: BOURGEOISNoun
informal + usually disparaging: a middle-class person: BOURGEOIS
Examples
- Soothing rhythms after midnight, theme songs to lucky affairs, shotgun weddings, and bougie proms, the fodder for adventurous crooners on amateur night at the Apollo … —Michael A. Gonzales
- After college, [writer Colson Whitehead] stopped going out to Sag Harbor much. "It was too bourgie," he said. —Charles McGrath
- He spends too much on bougie stuff he can’t afford.
- The bougie folks all left the old neighborhood and bought houses out there where their kids'll go to “good schools,” whatever that means.
- Of course, it may have occurred to Garber that people who summer in charming Nantucket houses, as she does, ought not to throw stones at wasteful bougies. —Zoe Heller
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