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.
The Turkish word gulet is a loanword from Venetian goÅÃ©ta (modern Italian goletta), itself a loanword from French gouÃ«lette (present-day spelling goÃ©lette), meaning schooner. The French word is probably related to goÃ©land, meaning (and etymologically related to the word) gull, ultimately of Celtic origin.