Technically, someone who is belonging to the middle class, anywhere from the bottom of it all the way up to the top, as rich as they get, so long as they are not noble, or royalty. This term more portrays towards the 16-1800's.
Now it is used to describe people who are rich, or belonging to the upper class. It can also mean kind of snobby. It is also really annoyingly spelled because the french made it up, so its basically annoying in all aspects.
Now it is used to describe people who are rich, or belonging to the upper class. It can also mean kind of snobby. It is also really annoyingly spelled because the french made it up, so its basically annoying in all aspects.
by Robert Myere March 8, 2004
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The bourgeois Board of Trustees at the College of St. Benedict are trying to make us live on campus all four years, what a violation of freedom!
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The Black upper-class, consisting of black lawyers, doctors, and other high level professionals. They tend to have a separatist attitude towards whites and a condescending attitude against poor blacks.
Bill Cosby's 2004 Pound Cake speech was an example of the rhetoric emanating from the jigga bourgeoisie.
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be stuck-up about their houses, food, and mostly clothes"
"they are on welfare...but they are part of the "new welfare
recipients"...they're too good for some "expired" items or inconvenient service...they're the "come to me correct" food stamp users"
be stuck-up about their houses, food, and mostly clothes"
"they are on welfare...but they are part of the "new welfare
recipients"...they're too good for some "expired" items or inconvenient service...they're the "come to me correct" food stamp users"
"I was stuck in line at the store, yo, when this "welfare bourgeois" started arguing with the clerk about the quality of`the fresh baked bread"
"The welfare bourgeois are working the system...they get all the good stuff first...and act like they're something."
"The welfare bourgeois are working the system...they get all the good stuff first...and act like they're something."
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