Posh, air-polluting SUVs that are about as likely to go-off road as fly to Spain. Generally driven by overpaid soccer mothers.
by through_kashmir May 17, 2005
Get the bourgeois bulldozer mug.Adj. When pronounced "BOO-zhee" (soft-j sound like in French) refers to a quality of (sometimes mildly) snobby-without-realizing-it, upper-middle-class sensibilities. Usually associated with upper-middle-income white people, but not necessarily. Can involve driving the right car, getting the right (healthy or gourmet) foods, having a professional/white-collar job, always having "nice" things, $4 lattes at Starbucks or elsewhere because you think you're above Starbucks, having a well-diversified stock portfolio and other retirement savings, having a special set of dishes and everything else just for Christmas, status-symbol kids or pets, carbon offsets, thinking $15 wine is cheap, listening to NPR, and gentrifying neighborhoods. Even though not all of these things may be bad and some of them could be done by anybody (like healthy food or looking down on Starbucks), it's a certain combination and a certain attitude that goes along with it that you know when you see. As with many type-of-people-describing things, there can be some overlap with other things, yuppy stuff and hipster stuff especially (although hipsters tend to be associated with 20-somethings, and yuppies tend to be younger-middle-age; bourgeois has more of an association with younger-middle-age-thru-older-middle-age); can be distinguished from super-rich stuff; some people might do bourgeois things occasionally or do things in a bourgeois way, but some people are just bourgeois and usually don't realize it.
This neighborhood used to be a lively working-class Latino neighborhood, but then all these yuppies moved in cause it was close to downtown and was actually a pretty cool neighborhood, and now there's all these bourgeois shops and cafes everywhere and everyone's property values went up.
He likes to pretend he's all poor and disadvantaged and shops at Wal-Mart and stuff, but we all know he came from this total bourgeois background and his bourgeois parents support him still.
When I became a teacher, I wanted to teach at the high school I graduated from, but I ended up at this preppy magnet school in a bourgeois-ass suburb.
He likes to pretend he's all poor and disadvantaged and shops at Wal-Mart and stuff, but we all know he came from this total bourgeois background and his bourgeois parents support him still.
When I became a teacher, I wanted to teach at the high school I graduated from, but I ended up at this preppy magnet school in a bourgeois-ass suburb.
by PublicSexWithGarlic December 4, 2010
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When someone plops down in your lap in a flirtatious way.
Bourge is pronounce like the french word bourgeois.
Bourge is pronounce like the french word bourgeois.
by novelandtea June 18, 2011
Get the Raleigh bourge mug.A Bourger is the noun from for an individual in the Bourgeoisie. These people don't have to work for anything as the PROs are forced to do the work.
Lauren is a giant bourger who lives in a bourge house.
Person A - "Man I want a Rolex"
Person B - "Get your bourger self outta here"
Person A - "Man I want a Rolex"
Person B - "Get your bourger self outta here"
by PRO-Leader July 29, 2009
Get the Bourger mug.Lil' Kim indulges her bourgetto side by having trashy-flashy hundred dollar bills painted onto her nails.
by Maureen O'Connor July 20, 2004
Get the bourgetto mug.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
Get the bourgeouis mug.According to Karl Marx, there were only two classes: those controlling the means of power and those not. The bourgeois were those who controlled the political system, creating laws and values that would ensure their control of power over the proletariat working class.
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!
by Sam Gavin April 10, 2008
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