Home › Words › B › boorjoyboorjoy/ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/boorjoy means bourgeois.boorjoy is pronounced /ˈbɔːdʒɔɪ/.EtymologyHumorous respelling of bourgeois, as though so pronounced.adjBourgeois.e.g.“…So that was who the sulky bitch was, boorjoy and stuck-up—he'd heard the tale, Alick had sloshed her son down at Gowans.” — 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite:nounA bourgeois person; someone who is middle-class and conventional.e.g.“A lot of the Ellam Street boys read Ruskin and catch ideas about beauty which cause a lot of trouble till the girls get hold of them and marry them and turn them into respectable Boorjoys.” — 1944, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bourgeois 69% match — Of or relating to the middle class (often derogatory), and their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values. vs boorjoy →bourgie 68% match — A member of the bourgeoisie. vs boorjoy →boor 67% match — A peasant. vs boorjoy →booboisie 65% match — A social class made up of ignorant and uncultured people. vs boorjoy →bourgeoisitic 63% match — bourgeois vs boorjoy →bourgeoisly 63% match — In a bourgeois manner. vs boorjoy →nonbourgeois 62% match — Not bourgeois. vs boorjoy →bourgeoise 60% match — A female member of the bourgeoisie; a wealthy woman vs boorjoy →