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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A poppet valve.
  2. n. Nautical A small wooden strip on a gunwale that forms or supports an oarlock.
  3. n. Nautical One of the beams of a launching cradle supporting a ship's hull.
  4. n. Chiefly British A darling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A puppet.
  2. n. A term of endearment. See puppet.
  3. n. A shore or piece of timber placed between a vessel's bottom and the bilgeways, at the foremost and aftermost parts, to support her in launching. See cut under launching-ways.
  4. n. One of the heads of a lathe. Also popit. See cut under lathe-head.
  5. n. A puppet-valve.
  6. n. Small bits of wood upon a boat's gunwale, to support the rowlocks and washstrake.

Wiktionary

  1. n. informal An endearingly sweet or beautiful child.
  2. n. informal A young woman or girl.
  3. n. The stem and valve head in a poppet valve.
  4. n. A figurine or image of idolatry.
  5. n. A doll made in witchcraft to represent a person, used in casting spells on that person.
  6. n. nautical One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
  7. n. engineering An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See puppet.
  2. n. (Naut.) One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
  3. n. (Mach.) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
  4. n. same as poppit.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines

Etymologies

  1. Related to puppet. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English popet, small child, doll, puppet; see puppet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • frindley If not British/Aussie then you have to be Arthur Miller.

    The Crucible was the first and as far as I can recall the only time I've ever encountered this word in print/literature, and then in its "technical" sense. Although it was long familiar to me as a term of endearment for little girls here in Australia. Oct 13, 2008

  • dontcry Cat - I think you pretty much need to be to pull it off without sounding...what's the word...?

    Brits! They get all the fun words! Oct 12, 2008

  • chained_bear "POPPETS, the name of perpendicular pieces of timber which are fixed on the fore and aftmost parts of the bulgeways, to support the ship when launching."
    Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 350 Oct 12, 2008

  • catkisses Don't you have to be British to use this word? :) Aug 22, 2008

  • asativum Properly preceded by the word "my" when said, with a cackling laugh by crones of a certain age. Jan 20, 2008

  • treeseed (n): affectionate term for a small child
    (n): Voodoo doll
    (n): small doll used in sympathetic magic in some forms of Wicca
    (n): any small doll
    archaic form of puppet Jan 20, 2008

  • minerva These lines of Rowe have got into my head; and I shall repeat them very devoutly all the way the chairmen shall poppet me towards her by-and-by. Oct 11, 2007

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