mop
An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
Noun
- An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
- A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
- He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
- A dense head of hair.
- He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
- An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
- I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went. - 1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire,...
- The Mop Fairs attracted the attention of moralists. The hiring system was seen as a means to acquire girls for prostitution; although there is no evidence that this occurred in Stratford, where girls plying for hire...
- Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying...
- A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
- Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying...
- A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
- Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped - 2021 July 4, M24, “Plugged In”, Fumez the Engineer (music), 2:16–2:19:
- Fellatio.
- Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer - 2019, “Laneswitch”, in True 2 Myself, performed by Lil Tjay:
- A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
- A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
- A drunkard.
- Left his pa's farm and is now working at the city water works. Some say he's got to drink 'cause he works with blue vitriol and that kind of stuff. He was a drunken mop always. - 1931, Folk-say, page 183:
Origin
From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.
Forms
Derived
all mops and brooms dishmop mop-and-flop mopboard mop bucket mophandle mophead mop-headed mopholder moplike mop marriage moppy mop squeezer mopstick mopsy Mopsy moptop mop-up mop water mopwater on the mop squeegee mop suck the mop that's the way the mop flops
Noun UK, dialectal
- The young of any animal.
- A young girl; a moppet.
- A made-up face; a grimace.
- What mops and mowes it makes! -- - c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV,...
- Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,' And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,' Each one, tripping on his toe, Will be here with mop and mow. - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William...
Origin
From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”). Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.
Forms
Verb Entry 3
- To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
- to mop (or scrub) a floor
- to mop one's face with a handkerchief
- To shoplift.
- By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]...
Forms
Derived
mop down moppable mopper mop the floor with someone mop up remop unmopped
Verb Entry 4
- To make a wry expression with the mouth.
- Flibbertigibbet,[is scared of]moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women - c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
- There were women and children as well as men in the place, and all, ragged and half naked, mopped and mowed at the passers, or, leaping to their feet, defied them with unspeakable words and gestures. - 1904, Stanley J....