mop

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

mop (countable and uncountable, plural mops)

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Commercial mops (sense 1)
Starfish mop (sense 8)
  1. 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.
  2. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
    He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
  3. (humorous) A dense head of hair.
    He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
  4. (British, dialect, obsolete) A fair where servants are hired.
  5. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm
    • 2021 April 7, M24 (lyrics and music), “Plugged In”, Fumez the Engineer (music)‎, 2:16–2:19:
      Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps
      Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped
  6. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio.
    • 2019, “Laneswitch”, in True 2 Myself, performed by Lil Tjay:
      Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer
  7. (graffiti) A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
  8. (fishing) An row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
  9. (slang) A drunkard.
    • 1931, Folk-say, page 183:
      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.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Canadian French: moppe
  • German: Mopp
  • Spanish: mopa
Translations
References
  • (drunkard): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Verb

mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (US, slang) To shoplift.
    • 2013, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks, page 111:
      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: []
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Translations

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

mop (plural mops)

  1. (British, dialect, obsolete) The young of any animal.
  2. (British, dialect, obsolete) A young girl; a moppet.
  3. A made-up face; a grimace.

Verb

mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)

  1. (intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      Flibbertigibbet,[is scared of]moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women
    • 1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XII. The Peasants' Camp”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:
      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.
Derived terms
References
  • (fair where servants are hired): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

Cameroon Pidgin

Pronunciation

Noun

mop

  1. mouth

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

The now-obsolete sense brick, attested from the 17th century, appears to be the oldest, with the sense cookie following in the 18th century. The exact relationship between the various later senses is unclear. The ultimate origin is unclear, but possibly corrupted from mok (mug, cup).[1]

Noun

mop m (plural moppen, diminutive mopje n)

  1. a joke, jest
    Synonyms: grap, grol, fattoe
  2. a tune, melody
  3. a type of cookie
  4. (endearing, often in the diminutive) a woman or girl
  5. (obsolete) a brick
Usage notes
  • The use as an affectionate term of address is often as a diminutive, and specifically in the non-standard form moppie. The standard diminutive mopje is never used for this sense.
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “mop2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mop.

Noun

mop m (plural mops, diminutive mopje n)

  1. a mop (an implement for washing floors, etc.)
    Synonyms: zwabber, dekzwabber
Descendants
  • Papiamentu: mòp

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mop

  1. inflection of moppen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

French

Pronunciation

Noun

mop f (plural mops)

  1. Alternative form of moppe

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mop (joke, jest).

Pronunciation

Noun

mop (plural mop-mop, first-person possessive mopku, second-person possessive mopmu, third-person possessive mopnya)

  1. joke, jest
    Synonym: lelucon

Further reading

Polish

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mop

Etymology

Borrowed from English mop.

Pronunciation

Noun

mop m inan or m animal

  1. mop (implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle)
    Hypernym: szczotka

Declension

Derived terms

verbs

Further reading

  • mop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English mop.

Noun

mop n (plural mopuri)

  1. mop (an implement for washing floors)

Declension