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bourghetto 

Someone with hood like tendencies but prefers the posh life even the ghetto is never too far away.
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.

Wow that is so Bourghetto!
bourghetto by Hipi January 29, 2010
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bourghetto  

Pronunciation: bu-zh-etto
Function: adjective

A combination of the word 'bourgeois,' or a person who's snobby and only concerned with material interests, and 'ghetto,' meaning one from the 'hood.

Damn, look at her rocking a fake Gucci purse with Jimmy Choo boots. She's hella bourghetto with it!
bourghetto by Kamrencita January 20, 2009

bourghetto 

to behave in a snobby or uppity manner towards someone else from the 'hood;

to act better than your people/socioeconomic origin
Betty: Girl, you know I need to stop at Starbucks and get myself a nonfat mocha soy latte and a wheatgrass shot.

Sue: Girl, don't be gettin' all bourghetto on me now.
bourghetto by fluffcon December 17, 2008
Pronounced: Boo-jet-toe
1. A spoiled person who grew up in the hood.
2. a person that can go from bougie to ghetto in less than 30 secs
That is one bougetto bitch.
Bougetto by Skeezer sha July 25, 2006

boughetto 

Someone, usually a female, who wants to be bougie, but who is in reality ghetto.
"Man, she thinks she's so bougie in those $200 jeans."
"yep, but with that gold tooth she ain't nuthin but boughetto."
boughetto by Baby Mama June 16, 2008
a bougie person with ghetto qualities
ghetto bougie bougetto
Bougetto by jadie387 January 4, 2012
To be booghetto is to be living in an upper middle class situation yet still retaining "ghetto" tendencies.
He is booghetto cuz he shops at banana republic but buys socks from costco.

The b00ghetto people were taken to the party in the limo and on the way they stopped for some kfc.
booghetto by Dina October 27, 2003