| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bou·gie |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b  zh , -j |
| NOUN: | 1. Medicine a. A slender, flexible, cylindrical instrument that is inserted into a bodily canal, such as the urethra, to dilate, examine, or medicate. b. See suppository. 2. A wax candle. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from Old French, a fine wax, after Bougie (Bejaïa), a city of northern Algeria.
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