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poppet

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
poppet/ˈpɒpɪt/

▶noun

1 Brit. informal an endearingly sweet or pretty child.

2 (also poppet valve) Engineering a mushroom-shaped valve with a flat end piece that is lifted in and out of an opening by an axial rod.

– origin ME: based on L. pup(p)a ‘girl, doll’; cf. puppet.

'poppet' also found in these Oxford entries:

poppet-head - popsy - pupil - puppet

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