Corey in Fort Worth noticed bougie in music and books and wondered how it moved from the Marx-era sense of bourgeois toward a slang insult. Bougie, also spelled boojee, is short for bourgeois and usually criticizes someone as showy, putting on airs...
What’s the origin of word and word up? A theory in Geneva Smitherman’s Black Talk suggests they descend from the African American proverb your word is your bond, popularized in the 1960s by a splinter group from the Nation of Islam. Along the way...
