poppy

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒpi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒpi
• Hyphenation: pop‧py

Common poppies or corn poppies (Papaver rhoeas; sense 1).

An artificial poppy flower (sense 3) for wearing in a buttonhole to remember those who died in armed conflicts.

Artificial poppies (sense 3) at a World War I memorial in the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Beckwithshaw, in North Yorkshire, England, UK.

The noun is derived from Late Middle English poppy, Middle English popy, popi, popie (“plant of the genus Papaver; poppy seeds used as a spice”) [and other forms], from Old English popiġ (“poppy”), Early Old English popeġ, popaeġ, popæġ, popei [and other forms],^[1] perhaps from Late Latin *papavum, popauer, from Latin papāver (“poppy”),^[2] which may be from a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“bonfire”). Doublet of papaver.

Sense 3 (“artificial poppy flower to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts”) reflects the efforts of American professor and humanitarian Moina Michael (1869–1944) to popularize the wearing of artificial poppies in remembrance of those who fought and died in World War I; she was inspired by the poem “In Flanders Fields” (1915) by the Canadian poet and soldier John McCrae (1872–1918): see the quotation.

The adjective is derived from the noun.

poppy (countable and uncountable, plural poppies)

2. Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
   • 1915 May 3 (date composed), John McCrae, “In Flanders Fields”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, published 8 December 1915, →OCLC; republished in In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, New York, N.Y., London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], 1919, →OCLC, page 3:

     In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; […] / If ye break faith with us who die / We shall not sleep, though poppies grow / In Flanders fields.

   • 1918 November 9, Moina Michael, We Shall Keep the Faith; quoted in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the First Session of the Sixty-ninth Congress of the United States of America (United States House of Representatives), volume LXVII, part 4, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1926 February 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3717, column 2:

     We cherish, too, the poppy red / That grows on fields where valor led; / It seems to signal to the skies / That blood of heroes never dies, / […] / And now the torch and poppy red / We wear in honor of our dead. / Fear not that ye have died for naught; / We've learned the lesson that ye taught / In Flanders fields.

3. A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.

   poppy:  

4. (chiefly Australia, British, Canada) A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Day/Remembrance Sunday.
   • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England under 21 5 Iceland under 21 0: Match report”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph‎^[1], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 November 2011:

     Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.

• → Japanese: ポピー (popī)

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poppy (not comparable)

1. Of a bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower (Papaver rhoeas).

From pop (“loud, sharp sound; fizzy drink; to make or burst with a loud, sharp sound; to stand out”) +‎ -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).^[3]

poppy (comparative poppier or more poppy, superlative poppiest or most poppy) (informal)

1. Having a popping or bursting sound.
2. Of a beverage: resembling soda pop; effervescent, fizzy.
3. Of eyes: protruding, sticking out.

   Synonym: bulging

From pop(ular) +‎ -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’).^[4]

poppy (comparative poppier or more poppy, superlative poppiest or most poppy)

1. (dated) Popular. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (music) Typical of, or in the style of, pop music.
   • 2010, Daryl Easlea, “Island Life”, in Talent is an Asset: The Story of Sparks, London, New York, N.Y.: Omnibus Press, →ISBN:

     I thought Sparks were great; they were very poppy for Island Records. They were considered an oddity but you have to remember that at the time Roxy Music, now everyone's seminal band, were seen as very poppy.

• poppiness

From pop (“affectionate form of father”) +‎ -y (suffix forming terms of endearment).

poppy (plural poppies)

1. (endearing) One's father or grandfather, or a male authority figure having similar standing.

   (father): Synonyms: pappy, pop, poppa, (potentially derogatory) pops

   (grandfather): Synonyms: pappy, pop-pop

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