popple

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. poplar dialectal
    — 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.
  2. 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.
动词 v.
  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 Water

词形变化

popples plural pople alternative popples plural pople alternative popples present,singular,third-person poppling participle,present poppled participle,past poppled past pople alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
popply

词源

词源 1
From Middle English popul, popil, from Old English popul, from Latin populus.
词源 2
From Middle English poplen, possibly from Middle Dutch, of imitative origin.
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