Duppy is a patois word meaning ghost or spirit.
Duppy Quotes in A Brief History of Seven Killings
The A Brief History of Seven Killings quotes below are all either spoken by Duppy or refer to Duppy. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part 1, Chapter 11
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I didn't want to fuck him, none of that nasty batty boy business, I just wanted to go inside him like a duppy and move when he move and buck when he buck and wind when he wind and feel myself pull out little by little by little and ram back in hard then soft, fast then slow. Then I wanted to be the woman. I just need to fucking breathe.
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Duppy Term Timeline in A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Part 4, Chapter 6
...with an old friend called A-Plus, who looked at him as if he was a duppy. A-Plus explained that Weeper claimed to have killed Tristan in New York. Tristan and A-Plus...
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