"poppet" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpɒ.pɪt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-poppet.wav Forms: poppets [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒpɪt Etymology: A variant of puppet. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*peh₂w-}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} poppet (plural poppets)
  1. (informal, term of endearment) An endearingly sweet or beautiful child. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-poppet-en-noun-5hkJ8AZZ Categories (other): English terms of address, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Children, People Disambiguation of English terms of address: 14 2 32 26 15 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 13 2 32 27 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 1 34 28 13 11 Disambiguation of Children: 26 3 24 24 12 13 Disambiguation of People: 25 0 15 27 16 18
  2. (informal, term of endearment) A young woman or girl. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-poppet-en-noun-9PpvIFId
  3. The stem and valve head in a poppet valve.
    Sense id: en-poppet-en-noun-PLxi55fj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms of address, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Children, Mechanics, People Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 1 35 28 11 15 Disambiguation of English terms of address: 14 2 32 26 15 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 13 2 32 27 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 1 34 28 13 11 Disambiguation of Children: 26 3 24 24 12 13 Disambiguation of Mechanics: 3 3 63 8 3 20 Disambiguation of People: 25 0 15 27 16 18
  4. A doll (such as a voodoo doll) made in witchcraft to represent a person, used in casting spells on that person.
    Sense id: en-poppet-en-noun-ExoI0BF4 Categories (other): English terms of address, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Children, People, Wicca Disambiguation of English terms of address: 14 2 32 26 15 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 13 2 32 27 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 1 34 28 13 11 Disambiguation of Children: 26 3 24 24 12 13 Disambiguation of People: 25 0 15 27 16 18 Disambiguation of Wicca: 0 0 0 100 0 0
  5. (nautical) One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.
    Sense id: en-poppet-en-noun-oIP9q9Wr Categories (other): Nautical, English terms of address, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Children, People Disambiguation of English terms of address: 14 2 32 26 15 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 13 2 32 27 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 1 34 28 13 11 Disambiguation of Children: 26 3 24 24 12 13 Disambiguation of People: 25 0 15 27 16 18 Topics: nautical, transport
  6. (engineering) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.
    Sense id: en-poppet-en-noun-FFR3ejvM Categories (other): Engineering, English terms of address, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Children, People Disambiguation of English terms of address: 14 2 32 26 15 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 13 2 32 27 14 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 1 34 28 13 11 Disambiguation of Children: 26 3 24 24 12 13 Disambiguation of People: 25 0 15 27 16 18 Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: poppet valve

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.