mop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
fishing
graffiti
hobbies
lifestyle
visual-arts
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: mops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
gloss: A dense head of hair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
humorous
uncountable
examples: He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
gloss: An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
pos: noun
tags: UK
West-Midlands
countable
dialectal
uncountable
examples: I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.
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 were generally accompanied by their formidable mothers.
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 tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.
gloss: A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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 tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.
gloss: A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps
Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped
gloss: Fellatio.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer
gloss: A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A drunkard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to mop (or scrub) a floor
to mop one's face with a handkerchief
gloss: To shoplift.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: 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: […]
Derived words: 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
wet mop
whiting-mop
mop down
moppable
mopper
mop the floor with someone
mop up
remop
unmopped
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: ganyota
lang: French
word: grimace
lang: Hungarian
word: grimasz
lang: Hungarian
word: fintor
lang: Polish
word: grymas