Bourgie

[Tom Kysilko]

In the early '90s a number of my left-wing political buddies in the Twin
Cities, most of whom were white, used /bu' zhi/.  I never saw it spelled out.
They could very well have gotten it from their Afro-American political buddies.

--Tom Kysilko

Quoting Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>:
> >         The earliest usage I have seen is from the 1/17/89 L.A. Times:
>
> Clarence Major's 1970 Dictionary of Afro-American has this under
> _boojy,_ a more usual spelling. My impression is that the _bourgie_
> spellings have been on the increase in recent years, but the -oo-
> r-less spellings still predominate.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> OED