bougie

bougie englanniksi

1. A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.

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3. 2001, Sacks|Oliver Sacks, ''Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood|Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood'', A. Knopf|Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 12,

I was not too sure, as a child, what doctors "did," and glimpses of catheters and bougies in their kidney dishes, retractors and speculums, rubber gloves, catgut thread, and forecepts - all this, I think, rather frightened me, though it fascinated me too.

4. A wax candle.

5. Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, class|middle-class / bourgeois people (q).

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9. (quote-song)|artist=(w)|passage=I don't need you or your brand new Benz / Or your bougie friends

10. Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

11. A person who exhibits bougie behavior.

12. (quote-book) following the first appearance of this book, ''The Black Anglo-Saxons'', street militants and conscious members of the (w) popularly called them "bougies."

13. candle

14. plug