North German: metonymic occupational name for a gardener and horticulturalist, from Middle Low German prop ‘graft’, or a reduced form of a Germanic personal name formed with a cognate of Old High German proz ‘opening bud’. exg eg adds variant, pg. 326.North German: nickname for a fat little man, from Middle Low German proppe ‘stopper’, ‘plug’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): origin uncertain; possibly the same as 2 or 1 above.
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