What's the difference between peppy and poppy?

Peppy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is an aggressive and peppy Twitter user and turns up on Fox Business to predict disaster on a regular basis.
  • (2) The highest achiever of Leonia High's Class of 1972 , "Tom" Ilves gave young classmates rides in his family's Plymouth station wagon and introduced me to a peppy little combo from Los Angeles that had just released their first album.
  • (3) Preen: "I love how the clothes are so happy and peppy, but still cool.
  • (4) The Lego Movie tells the story of Emmet, a conspicuously average member of the ultra-peppy Lego society: yellow head, curved hands, job in construction (what else?)
  • (5) The woman isn't the only person to have been swept up in Frozen's spindrift of sororal love and peppy songcraft – it has become the most successful animated movie of all time with $1.23bn in revenue worldwide, and is now the third-highest grossing film ever in Japan, after Titanic and Spirited Away.
  • (6) But I was at my laptop when the Star Wars YouTube Channel’s anchors, the peppy Anthony Carboni and Andi Gutierrez, went live to a studio in Tokyo.
  • (7) Jean Dujardin plays George Valentin, a silver-screen idol who can't adjust to the new "talkies", while a former ingénue Peppy Miller (played by the winsome Bérénice Bejo) becomes a huge star.
  • (8) In January, she won a Golden Globe for her role as peppy local bureaucrat Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation (she celebrated by seeming to make out with Bono).

Poppy


Definition:

  • (n.) Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to some extent; also, a flower of the plant. See Illust. of Capsule.
  • (n.) Alt. of Poppyhead

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An ITV news presenter who has been subject to racist and sexist abuse for her decision not to wear a Remembrance Day poppy said she made her decision in order to be "neutral and impartial on-screen".
  • (2) Nearby, peace campaigner Maria Galliastegui, a veteran of the camp set up by Brian Haw and others on Parliament Square, stood wearing a white poppy.
  • (3) "And I think that there was some major journalist [the Channel Four news presenter Jon Snow in 2010] who would be as big a supporter of Remembrance Day as anybody, but who said he didn't wear a poppy because he felt people were telling him he should do it.
  • (4) Every year I donate to the Poppy Appeal because above all else it is a charity that needs donations, so that it can continue to help support serving and ex-service men and women and their families."
  • (5) "We all wear the poppy with pride, even if we don't approve of the wars people were fighting in … to honour the fact that these people sacrificed their lives for us.
  • (6) This substance had been isolated by him from the poppy-plant.
  • (7) The misuse of morphine, especially in the form of poppy capsules, was a problem for some years, whereas cocaine has not yet been a drug of abuse in Denmark.
  • (8) In any large scale screening for abuse of opiate drugs, the possibility of urinary alkaloids arising from consuming food containing poppy seeds must be considered and, if possible, eliminated.
  • (9) We all wear the poppy with pride, even if we don't approve of the wars people were fighting in … to honour the fact that these people sacrificed their lives for us.
  • (10) Sponsor MBMers' good causes, namely those of Kat Petersen and Poppy McNee and Dan Hickman .
  • (11) With lots of water and fertile land, Sangin is perfect for growing the poppies currently being harvested for their opium sap.
  • (12) The majority of her books were successful fiction and included the 12-volume family sequence The Performers (1973-86) and the six-book sequence The Poppy Chronicles (1987-92).
  • (13) Significantly more patients became pregnant after HSG in the ethiodized poppy-seed oil group than in the three water-soluble contrast media groups (P less than .01).
  • (14) In 2009 and 2010 poppy farming was eradicated from 20 provinces.
  • (15) Fifa's reasoning for turning down the FA's request to have the poppies on the kit was that it would "open the door to similar initiatives" across the world, while "jeopardising the neutrality of football.
  • (16) Sangin assault is sign of Taliban confidence and warning to Kabul Read more Sangin has for years been the scene of fierce fighting between the Taliban and Nato forces, and and sits at the juncture in the biggest poppy-growing region in the world.
  • (17) Opium poppy latex contains a group of laticifer-specific, low-molecular-weight polypeptides called major latex proteins (MLPs).
  • (18) Communities raising opium poppy as a cash crop had highest crude rates of addiction (7.0-9.8 addicts per 100 people).
  • (19) St James's Palace said of Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge: "The Duke's strong view is the poppy is a universal symbol of remembrance, which has no political, religious or commercial connotations."
  • (20) 131 samples of poppy seed imported in 1977, 1978, and 1979 were analyzed for organochlorine pesticides.