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popple verb [ ˈpɒp(ə)l ]

• (of water) flow in a tumbling or rippling way.
• "we could hear the sound of the water poppling, splashing, trickling"

popple noun

• a rolling or rippling of water.
• "the short, confused popple that exists outside the entrance to the marina"
Origin: late Middle English: probably from Middle Dutch popelen ‘to murmur’, of imitative origin.

popple noun

• a poplar tree.
Origin: late Middle English: apparently from Latin populus ‘poplar’.


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