different between poppet vs popper

English

Etymology

A variant of puppet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.p?t/
• Rhymes: -?p?t
• Hyphenation: pop?pet

Noun

poppet (plural poppets)

1. (informal, term of endearment) An endearingly sweet or beautiful child.
2. (informal, term of endearment) A young woman or girl.

   Come 'ere, poppet!
3. The stem and valve head in a poppet valve.
4. A doll (such as a voodoo doll) made in witchcraft to represent a person, used in casting spells on that person.
5. (nautical) One of certain upright timbers on the bilge ways, used to support a vessel in launching.

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6. (engineering) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.

Derived terms

• poppet valve

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?p?t/

Verb

poppet

1. second-person plural subjunctive I of poppen

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?p.?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?p?p.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?.p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(r)
• Homophone: pauper (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English poppere, equivalent to pop +? -er (suffix forming agent noun).

Noun

popper (plural poppers)

1. One who or that which pops.
2. (obsolete) A dagger.
   • 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Reves Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 2003, Walter W. Skeat (editor) Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Part 2, The Reeve's Prologue ,

     A joly popper baar he in his pouche ; / Ther was no man for peril dorste him touche.

3. A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.

   Synonym: cracker

4. (fishing) A floating lure designed to splash when the fishing line is twitched.
5. Either of a pair of interlocking discs commonly used in place of buttons to fasten clothing, a snap fastener.

   Synonyms: snap, snap fastener, press stud

6. A device that pops kernels of corn to produce popcorn.
7. A stuffed and usually breaded jalapeño.
   • 2003, James D. Campbell, Mr. Chilehead: Adventures in the Taste of Pain (page 168)

     You mix habs into the cheese before stuffing your poppers […]

8. A looner (balloon fetishist) who prefers to burst balloons.
9. (informal, countable) A capsule of amyl nitrite, a recreational drug used during sex.
   • Looks like she's had too many poppers.
10. (uncountable) Amyl nitrate.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Popper (“a brand name”), a brand name owned by Queensland United Foods; from 1978.

Noun

popper (plural poppers)

1. (Australia) Synonym of juice box

Spanish

Noun

popper m (plural poppers)

1. popper (capsule for recreational use as a sexual stimulant)