Noun: poplolly
| Singular | poplolly |
| Plural | poplollies |
Sample Sentences
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This house presided over by a poplolly! a magnificent woman, dressed to perfection, without a vestige of her former habits. [1825, Thomas Creevey, The Creevey Papers (private correspondence):]
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"[the daughter] Was offered a provision by her brother," said the landlord indignantly, "on terms that would have disgraced a poplolly; but she preferred her independence with poverty, and none to blame her. [1913, Bernard Capes, “Tony's Drum”, in Bag and Baggage:]
Nouns inflected like poplolly
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Likely a fanciful variant of poplet, ultimately from French poupe (“doll”). See: French Nouns '
poupe'.