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Definitions and meaning of mop

mop

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp

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)

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.

3. (humorous) A dense head of hair.

4. (British, dialect, West Midlands) An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
5. (British, obsolete) A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
6. (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
7. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio.
8. (graffiti) A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
9. (fishing) A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
10. (slang) A drunkard.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Canadian French: moppe
• → German: Mopp
• → Irish: mapa
• → 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.

2. (US, slang) To shoplift.

Derived terms

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)

2. (British, dialect, obsolete) The young of any animal.
3. (British, dialect, obsolete) A young girl; a moppet.
4. 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.

Derived terms

• moppet

References

• (fair where servants are hired): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• MPO, OPM, PMO, POM, Pom, pom

Cameroon Pidgin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔp/

Noun

mop

1. mouth

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔp/
• Hyphenation: mop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

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”).

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

• → Indonesian: mop (only found in the phrase April Mop)

References

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

• IPA^(key): /mɔp/

Noun

mop f (plural mops)

1. alternative form of moppe

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mop (“joke, jest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmop/, [ˈmɔp̚]
• Rhymes: -mɔp
• Hyphenation: mop

Noun

mop (plural mop-mop)

1. joke, jest

   Synonym: lelucon

Further reading

• “mop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English mop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: mop
• Homophone: MOP

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

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

Source: wiktionary.org