bobo
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of bobo
1995-2000; bo(urgeois) 1 + bo(hemian); from the book Bobos in Paradise by U.S. journalist David Brooks
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Both Mora y Araujo and Balague point out that the insult Messi chose for Weghorst - "bobo" - is a word that only "kids use".
From BBC ● May 29, 2023
Isabel Marant’s collection had the designer’s typical bobo favourites – padded jackets, floral prints, frilly sandals – but a short red metallic dress had the shot of sheen that nodded to the glamour decade.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2016
Skip the bobo drinks and hydrate the traditional way with hot tea – or just the broth from the pho.
From US News ● Sep. 20, 2013
If you frequent the kind of bobo saloons depicted on Portlandia and the like, then simply repeat the above paragraph—which is the one authentic recipe for "'s Postcolonial Tequila Julep"—to your suspender-clad mixologist.
From Slate ● May 4, 2012
Hence it was in no pleasant voice that she called to Timoteo, when he at last made his appearance between the bony gate-posts: "Hombre bobo, thou must go for the cow tonight!"
From Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East by Bamford, Mary E. (Mary Ellen)
Then he eats some blueberries, which he calls bobos, and we’ll have some breakfast, which can be eggs or something like that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
When a family of New York bobos sets off for a weekend in the Hamptons, and the writer is Rumaan Alam, you expect a social satire — and get it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
The district's longstanding working-class residents have been joined over the decades by immigrants from North Africa, young creative types and — as social cachet and property prices rose — by well-off "bourgeois bohemians" or "bobos."
From US News ● Nov. 19, 2015
And as a sign that the bobos might soon be ceding their territory to tourists — already appearing on boat tours of the canal — Le Citizen, the quartier’s first boutique hotel, made its debut.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2011
No flies or bobos, as they were know here, added to their misery given their great distance offshore.
From The Land of Look Behind by Brown, Paul Cameron
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