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Topsy.

Something or someone who figuratively grows without control or intention.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈtɒpsi/UK
  1. Something or someone who figuratively grows without control or intention.

Where this word comes from

After a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), who, asked about God, says "I s'pect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me." The sense of excessive out-of-control growth is a misunderstanding.

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