单词 | papple |
释义 | papplev. Scottish and Irish English (northern). intransitive. To boil; to bubble; to emit a sound like that of boiling liquid or fast-flowing water. Chiefly figurative. Cf. popple v.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > bubble or gurgle blubberc1400 bubblea1475 gurl1635 plash1665 gargle1681 gurgle1713 guggle1755 papple1755 1755 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. (at cited word) She would keep the Matter papling. 1834 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 789 We hear them pabbling in the pan. 1897 Arbroath Guide 9 Oct. 4 I'm just a' peplin to see the grandeur o't [sc. a present]. a1991 W. N. Herbert Grout & Pamisample in Forked Tongue (1994) 113 Pawmrin owre thi hungry-groond atween The lampies lyk a palissade in negative, Papplan oan thi heckle-pins O exile frae aa purpose-fu acts. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. (at cited word) Papple, of flowing water popple, gurgle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1755 |
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