guppy
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i noun, plural gup·pies.
a small, freshwater topminnow, Poecilia reticulata, often kept in aquariums.
Also called rainbow fish.
Origin:
named after R.J.L. Guppy (1836–1916) of Trinidad, who presented specimens to the British Museum; catalogued under the Neo-Latin name Gerardinus guppyi in 1866
named after R.J.L. Guppy (1836–1916) of Trinidad, who presented specimens to the British Museum; catalogued under the Neo-Latin name Gerardinus guppyi in 1866
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| —n , pl -pies | |
| a small brightly coloured freshwater viviparous cyprinodont fish, Lebistes reticulatus, of N South America and the Caribbean: a popular aquarium fish | |
| [C20: named after R. J. L. Guppy, 19th-century clergyman of Trinidad who first presented specimens to the British Museum] | |
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Guppy
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
guppy
1925, named for R.J.L. Guppy, Trinidad clergyman who supplied the first specimen (1866) to the British Museum. The family name is from a place in Dorset. The class of streamlined U.S. submarines (1948) is an acronym from greater underwater propulsion power + -y.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
The intervention of humans into this situation is about as needed as a guppy needing a bicycle.
In their quest for mates, some guppy males are show-offs.
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