poppied

English

Etymology

poppy +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɒpid/

Adjective

poppied (comparative more poppied, superlative most poppied)

1. Mingled or interspersed with poppies.
   • 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 1:

     poppied corn

2. Affected by, or as if by, opium; drowsy; listless; inactive.
   • 1869, James Russell Lowell, Pictures from Appledore:

     The poppied sails doze on the yard.

   • 1923, Christina Rossetti, Come Hither: A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages:

     Young Love lies drowsing
     Away to poppied death;
     Cool shadows deepen
     Across the sleeping face:
     So fails the summer
     With warm, delicious breath;
     And what hath autumn
     To give us in its place?
     

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “poppied”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)