Etymology

crappie

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Today it means: A member of either of two species of North American sunfish of the genus Pomoxis, both with silvery-white with black speckles and prized as gamefish. Full definition →

French crapet
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  1. French · borrowed fromcrapet
  2. French · borrowed fromcrapet
  3. English todaycrappie

Borrowed from French crapet (“sunfish”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.