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popple

/ˈpɒpl̩/

popple noun: poplar.

Noun (1)

popple (plural popples)

  1. (dialectal) poplar
    • Some of them had recently built a pulp mill, and he called my attention to the young growths of "popple" we could see from the car window and remarked: "There's good pulp material in those trees, but it's not easy to get 'em cut. You'll strike lots of Catholic lumber-jacks who won't have anything...1911, Highways and byways of the Great Lakes, The Macmillan company, page 264

Noun (2)

popple (plural popples)

  1. Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind).
    • Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!

Verb

popple (third-person singular simple present popples, present participle poppling, simple past and past participle poppled)

  1. Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.
  2. To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.
    • His Brains came poppling out like Water1675, Charles Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque

popple meaning in Tamil

popple in Tamil

துள்ளு

Forms of popple

Noun
pluralpopples
alternative formpople
Verb
third-person singular presentpopples
present participlepoppling
past participlepoppled
pastpoppled

Origin of popple

From Middle English popul, popil, from Old English popul, from Latin populus.

From Middle English poplen, possibly from Middle Dutch, of imitative origin.

Words formed from popple

Questions about popple

What does popple mean?
Popple means poplar.
What is popple in Tamil?
Popple in Tamil is துள்ளு. See Popple meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is popple?
Popple can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce popple?
Popple is pronounced /ˈpɒpl̩/.
What is the plural of popple?
The plural of popple is popples.

Words near popple in the dictionary

  1. poppish
  2. poppism
  3. poppisms
  4. poppit
  5. poppits
  6. popple
  7. poppled
  8. popples
  9. Popplestone
  10. Popplestones
  11. Poppleton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: popple (page history and authors); popple (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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