popple
/ˈpɒpl̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
verb
To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.
Example Sentences
- "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 to do with cutting a popple tree, and they won't cross a bridge or sleep in a house that has popple wood in it. There's a tradition that the cross on which Christ was crucified was of popple, and they say the wood was cursed on that account."
- "Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy."
- "His Brains came poppling out like Water"
Etymology
From Middle English popul, popil, from Old English popul, from Latin populus.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: popul, populus, poplen, -