Definitions for poppets

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poppets pop·pet

Spelling: [pop-it]

IPA: /ˈpɒp ɪt/

Poppets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in poppets (eopppst).

Definitions for poppets

noun

1. Also called poppet valve. Machinery. a rising and falling valve consisting of a disk at the end of a vertically set stem, used in internal-combustion and steam engines.
2. British Dialect. a term of endearment for a girl or child.
3. Nautical. any of the vertical timbers bracing the bow or stern of a vessel about to be launched.
4. poppit.
5. poppethead.
6. a usually plastic bead that can be connected to or detached from others of the same kind without hooks or clasps, used to form necklaces, bracelets, etc.

Origin of poppets

1300-50; Middle English; earlier form of puppet

Examples for poppets

"I'm glad I remembered to save my poppet," Dolly sought to find some comfort.

You go your own godless way, free of burdens—you and your Christian poppet.

"He has nothing to say about a matter of that kind," said poppet, coldly.

poppet says, “I made this for you in Arts and Crafts class.”

A bottle of The Glenlivet, aged in the cask longer than poppet and Buster put together.

I had my 14-year-old daughter, poppet, instruct me in how to watch an episode of Girls on my computer.

He said as much to Dolly, but she held her poppet closer and shook her head.

She made me a poppet of a piece of scarlet cloth, and I called it after her.

I have two daughters, poppet and her 17-year-old sister Muffin.

Because she ground the corn and fetched wood all day, and she had no poppet.