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Mop   /mɑp/   Listen
noun
Mop  n.  A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!"


Mop  n.  
1.
An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
2.
A fair where servants are hired. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet. (Prov. Eng.)
Mop head.
(a)
The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened.
(b)
A clamp for holding the thrums or rags of a mop. (U.S.)


verb
Mop  v. t.  (past & past part. mopped; pres. part. mopping)  To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.


Mop  v. i.  To make a wry mouth. (Obs.)





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"Mop" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself as he remembered Gill Mace. The boy who had called Frank a thief was unable to repeat the vile accusation when he emerged from the puddle into which Frank had pushed him. His mouth was full of mud, his hair was a dripping mop, his clothes were plastered with it. Frank had waited to respond to any later move that Gill might decide on. The jeweler's nephew, however, made none. As he emerged from the puddle three schoolgirls, ...
— The Boys of Bellwood School • Frank V. Webster
... didn't see "what she wanted ob dat chile to support—he was sho' he wouldn't do it;" and as for adventuring his precious self among the Philistines again, he utterly declined the proposition. Then Vina's anger rose, and with her lifted mop she drove her liege lord from her cabin-door, which he ever after found barred against him. George soon consoled himself with another wife, and about a year later departed for parts unknown. The years that followed were hard ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various
... once before in this eventful night, the air went flaming red before my eyes and helpless wrath came uppermost. I saw no way to clear her, and had there been the plainest way, dumb rage would still have held me tongue-tied. So I could only mop and mow and stammer, and, when the words were found, make shift to blunder out that such an accusation did the lady grievous wrong; that she had come attended and at my beseeching, to take a message from a dying man to one who was ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... heart to throw away good stuff," he grumbled at almost every creak. "Two hunder pound I would 'a paid myself for this here piece of timber. Steady as a light-house, and as handy as a mop; but what do they young fellows care? There, now, my lads, hold your legs a moment; and now make your ...
— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore
... The man was taken; and afterwards declared, that the maid was entirely indebted to her presence of mind for her life, for had she cried out, he would instantly have murdered her: but as he firmly believed she mistook his head for a mop, particularly as she had drawn the beer after she had felt it, he let ...
— The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes - Historical, Literary, and Humorous--A New Selection • Various


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