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Barnhart ADS-L at HIGHLANDS.COM
Wed Aug 16 01:48:52 UTC 2000


bubbie .... black yuppie
Chuppie .... Chinese yuppie
dumpie .... downwardly mobile middle-aged professional
gruppie ..... environmentally-conscious yuppie
huppie ..... hippy yuppie
juppie .....  Another word for buppie
nuppie ..... nonworking urban professional
puppie ..... pretentious yuppie
Rumpie ..... rural yuppie
scuppie ..... yuppie sensitive to social issues
skippie ..... school kid with income and purchasing power
suppie ..... Southern yuppie
woopie .....well-off older person
Yappie ... young arctic professional
yeepie ...  Youthful energetic elderly person
[yippie .... the possible father of Yuppie]
Yumpie .... another name for Yuppie
Zuppie .... zestful upscale people in their prime

The source .... _The Barnhart New Words Concordance_ (electronic
edition)!!!

Regards,
David

David K. Barnhart, Editor
The Barnhart Dictionary Companion [quarterly]
barnhart at highlands.com
www.highlands.com/Lexik

"Necessity obliges us to neologize."
Thomas Jefferson-August 16, 1813



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