Did you see Tammie at that new upscale reestraunt, Livingston with the girls having dinner? Well the girls were having dinner but Tammie was drinking water with lemon and eating bread.
combination of bein bougie (snobby) and ghetto. invented by Ali and Murphey Lee a couple years ago by their song 'boughetto'.
"If you got an expensive weave - That's boughetto!
Spend six hundred on weed - That's boughetto!
Benz while ya sittin on D's - That's boughetto!
Tell em what's boughetto - Bougie and ghetto!"
A person who comes from the hood or ghetto environment who is accustomed to that culture but has climbed their way to a new social class. They have a new found idea of culture and class, but because they come from the streets they still have that “hood” upbringing in them. They are classy and well mannered around new people but around people who they are comfortable with they are able to code switch back to their relaxed selves.
She is from the hood, but she grew up to be a very successful woman. She’s boughetto so don’t piss her off.