Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bourgeois, middle-class.

1968		A. Burgess Enderby Outside in Complete Enderby (2002) 302: Fifty or so miles from the capital, boojie little rathole.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 52: They don’t act like a bunch o’ boojie Toms.
1983		R. Price Breaks 157: I came on strong with a streety Bowery-Boys identity [...] playing down the boojy trappings of our apartment.
1970		B. Seale Seize the Time 41: Some bull crap about ‘Huey P. Newton comes from a bourgie family.’.
1989		L.A. Times 17 Jan. n.p.: Cynthia Lewis, a black real estate broker who moved here from Boston five years ago, said she was dismayed to discover that many black Washingtonians refuse to attend certain cultural events [...] because they are afraid other blacks will call them ‘bourgie’ – black English for bourgeois.
1990		N. George ‘Women of Color’ in Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos (1994) 143: Is she regular (not bourgie or country).
1997–2000		College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Buji (adj.) Used to describe a person who tries to act high class or is snobby or stuck up.
1998		Source Oct. 118: Mis a handful of ignorant white bigits [...] with a couple of bourgie Black liberals.
2002		Wash. Post 25 Sept. C1: A lack of high-end retail is one of many indignities that accompany life in this community, which is in real life and fiction, the bourgie capital of the world.
2018		Loski ‘Cool Kid’ 🎵 Brown and boujee, ooh she a winner.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 266: They were not aristocrats. Their mores and ethics were plum borgy.