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popple
1[ pop-uhl ]
verb (used without object)
- to move in a tumbling, irregular manner, as boiling water.
noun
- a poppling motion.
popple
2[ pop-uhl ]
noun
- a poplar of the genus Populus.
popple
/ ˈpɒpəl /
verb
- (of boiling water or a choppy sea) to heave or toss; bubble
- 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
Word History and Origins
Origin of popple2
Word History and Origins
Origin of popple1
Example Sentences
All the sounds were of water: the tick-tack of melting snow hitting tin roofs, the popple of gravity-fed pipes pouring mountain water into troughs.
“Planning is going to be more sophisticated,” said Ryan Popple, co-founder of Proterra, which produced some of Austin’s electric buses.
She initially takes instruction on New York society’s hierarchies from gossip columns and her manicurist, but Undine’s looks soon gain her entrée into conversation with a fashionable portraitist named Popple, and then an invitation to dine at the home of the elegant Fairfords, where Mrs. Fairford’s brother, Ralph Marvell, pays her particular attention.
Derek Popple, a UC Berkeley chemistry and physics graduate student, came for a coffee with a friend carrying his own mug.
“Because of my background, we had some hilarious conversations at first,” says Popple of meetings with labor reps.
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