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Oh, those saditty gals think they’re all that, don’t they? Saditty, or seditty, goes back to the 1940s, where it first appears in news articles from African-American publications. It applies primarily to women act like they’re better than others, or who seem stuck up. We also talked about saditty in a later episode. Bougie, as in bourgeois, has a similar use among African Americans. This is part of a complete episode.

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