Etymology

Popplestone

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Today it means: A surname transferred from the nickname [in turn from Old English]. Full definition →

Old English papolstān
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The story

  1. Old English · derived frompapolstān“pebble”
  2. English todayPopplestone

From Old English papolstān (“pebble”), perhaps a nickname used for a person hard to deal with.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishpapolstān all →

pebblepebblestone

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.