mop squeezer

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Etymology

Sense 2 attested from 1949 in the US.[1] Sense 2 possibly a reference to the scepter held by some queens (e.g., the queen of spades in the English deck).

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Pronunciation

Noun

mop squeezer (plural mop squeezers) (slang)

  1. (archaic) A maidservant.
    • c. 1758, Epistle of a Reformed Rake, page 23; quoted in Jonathon Green, “mop n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, 2024:
      Servant Maids – who despising their Station […] deserted their Calling, and from Mop-squeezers, were promoted to Whores.
  2. (uncommon, possibly offensive) A queen (the playing card).

References

  1. ^ Eric Partridge (2005) “mop squeezer”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1321.

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