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n. (context Caribbean English) A ghost or spirit.
Wikipedia
Duppy is a Jamaican Patois word of Caribbean origin meaning ghost or spirit. Much of Caribbean folklore revolves around duppies. Duppies are generally regarded as malevolent spirits. They are said to mostly come out and haunt people at night, and people from around the islands claim to have seen them. The "Rolling Calf" (a scary creature said to have chains around its body), "Three footed horse", and "Old Higue" are examples of the more malicious spirits.
In many of the islands of the Lesser Antilles, duppies are known as jumbies. Barbados also uses the word duppy and it holds the same meaning as it does in Jamaica.
Usage examples of "duppy".
The two duppy women each had a belly slightly swollen with the pregnancies for which Samuel had killed them.
Beatrice had broken the bottles that had confined the duppy wives, their bodies held in stasis because their spirits were trapped.
The duppy wives held their bellies and glared at her, anger flaring hot behind their eyes.
She stepped out of the meat locker and quietly pulled the door in, but left it open slightly so the duppy wives could come out when they were ready.
Dry Bone sit down there on one little wooden crate in the open market in Duppy Dead Town.
And then them would shrug and purse-up them mouth, for them know say hunger is only one of the crosses Duppy Dead pickney go have to bear.
True, Duppy Dead townspeople have a way to say that Dry Bone older than Death it own self.
She only feel the pain of knowing what she is, a worthless, wicked woman that only good to feed a duppy like Dry Bone.
Remember the duppy stories she used to tell us when we were small, so we would be scared and mind what she said?
Samantha felt the skin at the back of her neck prickle, like duppy walking on her grave.
Riding him like a duppy, a malevolent spirit, the stim-ghost grew paler with each thrash of his flailing body.
She leaned closer and whispered that I should be careful of his daughter, she was a duppy girl.