This list of words and the Ideas Books are now housed in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Roald's home town of Great Missenden-and the Museum is also just down the road from a house that inspired the orphanage The BFG snatches Sophie from in the story.
Full Definition of GUPPY. : a small bony fish (Poecilia reticulata of the family Poeciliidae) especially of Barbados, Trinidad, and Venezuela that is a live-bearer and is often kept as an aquarium fish.
Nippy. A nippy was a specific type of waitress associated with the J. Lyons & Co brand of tea, and its tea shops and cafes in the UK. Beginning in the late 19th century, a J. Lyons waitress was called a Gladys. From 1926, because the waitresses nipped around the tea shops the term Nippy came into use.