poppet
poppet Lexical Profile
poppet Game Scores & Validity
• noun
British An affectionate term of address or endearment for a sweet, small, or endearing child or young person.
"Come and sit by the fire, my little poppet, while I make you a cup of warm cocoa."
A small doll or human-shaped figure fashioned from cloth, wax, wood, or clay, used in folk magic and witchcraft to represent a specific person for healing or casting spells.
"The historical museum displayed aseventeenth-century cloth poppet discovered hidden inside a cottage chimney."
A mushroom-shaped mechanical valve component that rises and falls perpendicularly to its seat to control the flow of fluids or gases in an engine.
"The mechanic inspected the worn poppet in the cylinder head to determine why the engine was losing compression."
• Rhymes for poppet
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English popet ('doll, small person'), an earlier variant of puppet borrowed from Old French poupette, a diminutive of poupee ('doll'), ultimately from Vulgar Latin puppa.