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English
Pronunciation
Noun
yuppy (plural yuppies)
- Alternative spelling of yuppie
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English yuppie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝupi/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃupi/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒupi/
- Rhymes: -upi
- Syllabification: yup‧py
- IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʝapi/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈʃapi/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈʒapi/
Noun
yuppy m (plural yuppys)
- yuppie (young upwardly mobile urban professional person)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.