Entry · catalog no. 7775

boujee

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adjective · National · 2026

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Upwardly styled, with tastes that announce themselves — said with anywhere from affection to side-eye, and often both at once.

“She's too boujee now to eat anywhere with paper napkins.”

Origin & Attribution

Black American shorthand for "bourgeois," teasing class performance from inside the community for generations. Gladys Knight & the Pips cut "Bourgie, Bourgie" in 1980; Migos fixed the modern spelling with "Bad and Boujee" in 2016. Not a TikTok word — a fifty-year-old family joke about new money.

Region of origin

West

Midwest

N.East

South

Nationwide / diaspora

National · 2026

Spoken by

National

$BOUJEEThe Record · cultural traction

▲ Rising

0 yrs

ahead of the mainstream

12/100

peak cultural energy

Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.

Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest

First used

2026

in the culture

Recorded here

2026

point of first record

Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.

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Citations & Sources

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Bourgie, Bourgie, Gladys Knight & the Pips — song · 1980

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Bad and Boujee, Migos — single · 2016

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