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gup⋅py

  [guhp-ee]
–noun, plural -pies.
a small, freshwater topminnow, Poecilia reticulata, often kept in aquariums.
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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 NL name Gerardinus guppyi in 1866
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gup·py   (gŭp'ē)   
n.   pl. gup·pies
A small, brightly colored live-bearing freshwater fish (Poecilia reticulata or Lebistes reticulatus), native to northern South America and adjacent islands of the West Indies and popular in home aquariums.

[After R.J. Lechmere Guppy (1836-1916), clergyman of Trinidad who first supplied specimens to the British Museum.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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guppy

  1. n.
    a gay yuppy. : They called themselves guppies, because they were young and urban and gay.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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