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Showing posts with label 2:XXV. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Poppling

Meaning: the rippling or tumbling of flowing water.

Usefulness: 2 (I thought of this as a lovely, poetic word until I discovered a quote from Charles Cotton's Burlesque upon Burlesque in the OED: "His Brains came poppling out like water."*)

Logofascination: 1 (Popple is rather pretty, and along with bubble and guggle is probably onomatopoeic. There is another, etymologically separate sense - the frequentative of pop, which applies to motorbikes, gunfire, etc)