Boojies (was CP Time)

[Grant Barrett]

Boojies/boogies/bougies (the latter the more common spelling in my
experience) is still used enough that just last week I saw it
graffitied across an advertisement on the Brooklyn-bound side of the
First or Third Avenue stop of the L train in Manhattan.

Grant Barrett

> In a message dated  Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:05:49 -0500,  Wilson Gray
> <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> writes:
>
>>> Boojies?  (Sorry, Wilson!)
>>
>>  A nickname/slang term for "members of the black bourgeoisie," <snip>