What does expy mean?
Expy means Contraction of expressway..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Contraction of expressway..
I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.
The demon-run Raptor News Network clearly parodies that of the American conservative Fox News Network in both rhetoric and appearance, with its anchorman Bob Barbas being a thinly veiled expy of Bill O’Reilly.
The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […]
[…] Thimbleweed Park is an obvious X Files parody with direct expies of Mulder and Scully as protagonists, so a 1990s setting is the natural choice […]
Use expy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Expy means Contraction of expressway..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.
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