Word: buppies
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: bu
ppies
Definition: Plural of buppie. A black urban professional; an African American subset of the yuppie category. The group includes black professionals and executives in their late twenties and early thirties.
Morphemes:
Affix: black
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
Affix: yuppie
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: a young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.