Associations to the word «Duppy»

Wiktionary

DUPPY, noun. (Caribbean) A ghost or spirit.
DUPPY, verb. (MLE) To kill (to murder and, by extension, to excel).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats