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[Margaret Lee]

I thought *puppie* was the offspring of yuppie.


--- Barnhart <ADS-L at HIGHLANDS.COM> wrote:
> 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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Margaret G. Lee, Ph.D.
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& University Editor
Department of English
Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668
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