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poppet

noun
/ˈpɒ.pɪt/

Etymology

A variant of puppet.

Definitions

  1. An endearingly sweet or beautiful child.

  2. A young woman or girl.

    • Come 'ere, poppet!
    • Y'll be fess enough, my poppet, when th'st know!"

  3. The stem and valve head in a poppet valve.

    • After passing through the poppet valve, the impulse air and water flows through a poppet discharge stop valve and then through a discharge pipe to the poppet drain tank or bilge
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A doll (such as a voodoo doll) made in witchcraft to represent a person, used in casting…

      A doll (such as a voodoo doll) made in witchcraft to represent a person, used in casting spells on that person.

    2. One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.

    3. An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at poppet. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at poppet. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at poppet

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA