All 9 Uses of
bourgeois
in
The Iceman Cometh
- Bourgeois stool pigeons!†
Act 1
- Damned bourgeois Wop!†
Act 1
- Let us join in prayer that Hickey, the Great Salesman, will soon arrive bringing the blessed bourgeois long green!†
Act 1
- Laugh, leedle bourgeois monkey-faces!†
Act 1
- HUGO—(ignores this—to Larry, in a low tone of hatred) That bourgeois svine, Hickey!†
Act 2
- I remember her putting on her high-and-mighty free-woman stuff, saying you were still a slave to bourgeois morality and jealousy and you thought a woman you loved was a piece of private property you owned.
Act 2 *bourgeois = typical of the middle class values
- She brought me up to believe that family-respect stuff is all bourgeois, property-owning crap.†
Act 2
- (warming up, changes abruptly to his usual declamatory denunciation) Gottamned stupid bourgeois!†
Act 4
- Stupid bourgeois monkeys!†
Act 4
Definition:
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(bourgeois) typical of the middle class or their values and habits - typically used disapprovingly
or (in Marxist theory):
typical of the property-owning classeditor's notes: Bourgeois is often used to refer to the values of the upper middle class. You may also see the term petit bourgeois to describe very small business owners.
Note that bourgeois, bourgeoisie, and bourgeoise are often interchanged.
Bourgeois is most common and can be used as an adjective or a noun. Bourgeoisie is typically used only as a noun, and bourgeoise is occasionally used as an alternate spelling of bourgeois.