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ποππ-ύζω , Dor.ποππ-ύσδω , onomatop. word,
A.smack the lips or cluck: hence,
I. call to horses, etc., Ar.Pl.732, cf. D.S.1.83:—Med., call to a horse, S.Fr.878: com., call to a man, “πόρρωθεν ἀπιδὼν ἐπόππυσεν” Timocl.21.7; “παιδίον ὑποκορίζεσθαι ποππύζων” Thphr.Char.20.5; Ποππύζουσα, title of play by Alexis; “κἂν ἀστράφω ποππύζουσιν . . οἱ πάνυ σεμνοί” Ar.V.626 (cf. ποππυσμός).
II. applaud, Phld.Acad. Ind.p.14 M.:—Pass., “εἰ ποππυσθείη καὶ κροτηθείη” Pl.Ax.368d.
III. smack, of loud kisses, AP5.244 (Maced.), 284 (Agath.).
IV. in bad sense, play badly on the flute, let the breath be heard in playing, Theoc.5.7.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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