Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
💧 A bubbling sound ⛰️ A small hill 🌊 To bubble lightly
popple

popple

9.4
A light bubbling or popping sound made by water
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːpəl/
  • Archaic
translation icon : burbujeo
  • She listened to the soft popple of bubbles rising in her glass of soda.

Examples

  • The popple of the stream was soothing as we sat by the riverbank.

  • A gentle popple came from the kettle as the water began to warm on the stove.

  • I heard a soft popple from the stream.

  • The gentle popple of the water was soothing.

  • As we sat on the porch, the gentle popple of the stream created a peaceful atmosphere.

  • The soft popple from the boiling water signaled that it was ready for tea.

  • I enjoyed the popple of the tiny waves lapping against the shore at sunset.

Synonyms

gurgle
vspopple
10 3.5

A bubbling sound like water moving in a bottle

is gentler surface bubbling rather than flow through a narrow opening
fizz
vspopple
3 1.5

The soft hissing sound made by bubbles in a drink

is a soft water sound without the hissing of carbonation
blurp
vspopple
8.6

A soft bubbling sound made by a liquid or air bubble

is a gentle ongoing liquid motion rather than a single bubble pop

How Bubbling

gush
6 4.3
gurgle
10 3.5
to bubble
22 2.0
popple
  • Archaic
9.4

Surface Forms

popple singular
popples plural

Morphology

popple = pop (semi-transparent) = pop + le

The sound sense is plausibly built from the expressive base 'pop' plus the frequentative ending '-le', but the exact nuance is somewhat lexicalized.

Etymology

Popple probably comes from the short sound pop, a sound word that copies little bangs and bubbles, so a popple is a light bubbling or popping sound.