Topsy
Meanings
noun
- Something or someone who figuratively grows without control or intention.
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Etymology
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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