Topple vs Popple - What's the difference?
topple | popple |
to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something
* The massed crowds toppled the statue of the former dictator
to totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so
* The pile of pennies began to topple
(dialect) poplar
* 1911 , Highways and byways of the Great Lakes , The Macmillan company, page 264
Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind).
*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=17 Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.
To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.
As verbs the difference between topple and popple
is that topple is to push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something while popple is of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.As a noun popple is
poplar.topple
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Verb
(toppl)Anagrams
* English ergative verbspopple
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Alternative forms
* popleEtymology 1
(etyl) popul, popil, from (etyl) popul, from (etyl) populusNoun
(en noun)- Some of them had recently built a pulp mill, and he called my attention to the young growths of "popple'" we could see from the car window and remarked: "There's good pulp material in those trees, but it's not easy to get 'em cut. You'll strike lots of Catholic lumber-jacks who won't have anything to do with cutting a '''popple''' tree, and they won't cross a bridge or sleep in a house that has '''popple''' wood in it. There's a tradition that the cross on which Christ was crucified was of ' popple , and they say the wood was cursed on that account.
Etymology 2
(etyl) poplen, possibly from (etyl), of imitative origin English onomatopoeiasNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.}}
Verb
(poppl)- (Cotton)