Crappie. World English Historical Dictionary

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U.S. Also crappè, croppie. A species of sunfish, Pomoxys annularis, found in the Mississippi and its tributaries.

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1861.  G. F. Berkeley, Sportsm. W. Prairies, iii. 41. A fish they call the ‘crappeè.’ Ibid., xxii. 363. The crappè, so pronounced, which was very like our freshwater bream.

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1889.  Farmer, Dict. Amer., Croppie.

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