Meaning
A wild shrub bearing small cherry-like berries, so named because the fruit is left for the duppies (spirits) and birds rather than eaten by people — a folk way of marking a plant as not for human food. Like many 'duppy' plant names, it flags something wild, uncultivated, or best left alone.
Examples
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Nuh eat dat, a duppy cherry.
Don't eat that; it's a duppy cherry (not for eating).
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Di duppy cherry bush grow wild pon di fence.
The duppy cherry bush grows wild on the fence.
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Bird a nyam di duppy cherry.
Birds are eating the duppy cherries.
Origin
From Duppy (ghost) + 'cherry'; 'duppy' marks a wild plant not for human use. See Duppy-gun, Duppy.
How it’s used
A wild cherry-like berry bush, 'left for the duppy' (not eaten). See Duppy-gun, Duppy.