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popple

1

[ pop-uhl ]

verb (used without object)

, pop·pled, pop·pling.
  1. to move in a tumbling, irregular manner, as boiling water.


noun

  1. a poppling motion.

popple

2

[ pop-uhl ]

noun

, Northern U.S.
  1. a poplar of the genus Populus.

popple

/ ˈpɒpəl /

verb

  1. (of boiling water or a choppy sea) to heave or toss; bubble
  2. often foll by along (of a stream or river) to move with an irregular tumbling motion

    the small rivulet poppled along over rocks and stones for half a mile

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of popple1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English poplen; imitative; -le

Origin of popple2

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English popul, from Latin pōpulus
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Word History and Origins

Origin of popple1

C14: of imitative origin; compare Middle Dutch popelen to bubble, throb
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Example Sentences

Oh, I don't know unless it's because he makes such nice popple whistles!

To these we fastened cross pieces of "popple" and on this put a tick filled with wild hay and corn stalk leaves.

The roof was made by laying popple poles so they met in the middle and fastening them together.

So well placed and idle a gentleman was almost bound to be a bad poet and worse dramatist, and this William Popple was both.

The remains of the forest, overgrown with scrub oak and popple thickets pushed down to the right of way.

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