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.
Meaning & usage
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.
A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
Fellatio.
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
The young of any animal.
A young girl; a moppet.
A made-up face; a grimace.
Where this word comes from
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.
To make a wry expression with the mouth.
Where this word comes from
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.
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