Anyone know the meaning of the name poppet for a child?

I have a feeling this is an English thing. But I have heard this word used as an endearing term for a child. I want to know the origin and the meaning. Thanks.

Anyone know the meaning of the name poppet for a child?
it is english, old english, a poppet was a doll or something treasured by a child.


now you would call a child a poppet if you wanted to use an endearment in the same way as you would call somone love or sweetie etc etc


there was also the sweets they were a kind of chocolate with nuts i think in the middle. but i would call any small child a poppet
Reply:According to my dictionary the name 'poppet' is a term of endearment for a small or dainty person.
Reply:It means doll or puppet, something little.
Reply:in old English witchcraft, a poppet is a doll that is used to bind spells on a person for both good and bad. a bit like a voodoo doll i guess.
Reply:In folk-magic and witchcraft, a poppet is a doll made to represent a person, for casting healing, fertility, or binding spells on that person. These dolls may be fashioned from such materials as a carved root, grain or corn shafts, a fruit, paper, wax, a potato, clay, branches, or cloth stuffed with herbs. The intention is that whatever actions are performed upon the effigy will be transferred to the subject. This use of poppets is known as "image magic". They are also known as Poppits and Pippies.
Reply:Poppet is an older name for puppet. It was used as a term to describe a small child or doll.


It has carried though to today in England, especially in country areas.


In the old arts it also meant a doll that was used to cast spells, a little like a voodoo doll in Africa and parts of the Caribbean
Reply:a poppet in times gone buy was a small sweet, a small child is sweet so was called poppet (Payne's poppets were sold on railway stations in machines in England)
Reply:I heard it used on the movie, Mrs. Doubtfire.








I don't know the meaning, sorry.