Boojies (was CP Time)

[Beverly Flanigan]

Ah, "bougies" I have seen--and presumably it's pronounced with [Z]? or not
necessarily, since your alternate spellings use 'j' or 'g'?

At 09:04 AM 11/5/2004, you wrote:
>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>