choupique

Borrowed from Louisiana French choupique, from Choctaw shupik (“bowfin, mudfish”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃuˈpik/

choupique (plural choupiques)

1. (Louisiana) The bowfin fish, Amia calva
   • 2001, M. F. Korn, Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear, page 25:

     Them choupiques and ugly alligator gar done wanted to snap his damn hands off when he pulled them in the boat.

Borrowed from Choctaw shupik (“bowfin, mudfish”).

• IPA^(key): /ʃu.pik/
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /ʃu.pik/
• Rhymes: -ik
• Homophone: choupiques

choupique m (plural choupiques)

1. (Louisiana) bowfin, mudfish, grindle, cypress trout

• → English: choupique