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• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒpl̩/

語源 1

From Middle English popul, popil, from 古期英語 popul, from Latin populus.

名詞

popple (複数形 popples)

1. (dialect) poplar
   • 1911, Highways and byways of the Great Lakes, The Macmillan company, page 264

     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.

語源 2

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

名詞

popple (複数形 popples)

1. Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling または wind).
   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!‎^[1]:

     Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.