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[Laurence Horn]

At 9:48 PM -0400 8/15/00, Barnhart wrote:
>bubbie .... black yuppie

that's "buppie", I assume.  ("bubbie" is something else again. )
I've come across "guppie" more often than any of these except
possibly "buppie" and of course "yippie", which is not a "yuppie"
spin-off.  Yappie?  Yeepie?  Scuppie?  I'll take your word for it.

larry

>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)!!!
>