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Poppy

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A female given name from English, a flower name used since the end of the 19th century.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from English, a flower name used since the end of the 19th century.

    "It is a very pretty name, Mma. I should like to be called Poppy." The compliment drew a smile. "I used to be very embarrassed about it," said Poppy. "I used to try to hide my name from people. I thought it was a very silly name." Mma Ramotswe shook her head. There was nothing embarrassing about the name Poppy, but there was no telling what names people would find embarrassing.

proper noun

  1. 1

    informalFormer U.S. president George H. W. Bush

  2. 2

    Variant of poppyAlternative form of poppy (“father, grandfather, or other male authority figure of a similar standing”).

    My grandfather, whom we all call "Poppy", loves children and enjoys imparting his knowledge of aspects to them. ... Cell phones were not invented at the time, however, so I could not contact Poppy to help me end the hiccups.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).