different between brood vs mope

English

Etymology

From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English br?d (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *br?duz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bro?od, IPA^(key): /b?u?d/
• Homophones: brewed
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

brood (countable and uncountable, plural broods)

1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

   • As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.

2. (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
3. (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
4. (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii^[1]:

     Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.

5. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
   • 1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2:

     […] flocks of the airy brood,

     Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 19:

     Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,

     And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]

6. Parentage.
7. (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin

Adjective

brood (not comparable)

1. Kept or reared for breeding, said of animals.

   a brood mare

Verb

brood (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded)

1. (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

2. (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.

3. (intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
   • 1833, Alfred Tennyson:

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, The Scarlet Letter:
4. (intransitive) To be bred.

Translations

Further reading

• Brood (honey bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dobro, boord, dobro, droob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch brood, from Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??t/

Noun

brood (plural brode)

1. (countable) A loaf of bread.
2. (uncountable) Bread.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bro?t/
• Hyphenation: brood
• Rhymes: -o?t

Noun

brood n (plural broden, diminutive broodje n)

1. (uncountable) Bread.
2. (countable) A loaf of bread.
3. (countable, by extension) A similar bakery product or other baked dish.
4. (uncountable, metonymically) Someone's livelihood, especially in expressions like dagelijks brood.

Derived terms

- bakery products

Descendants

• Afrikaans: brood

Anagrams

• boord

Middle English

Alternative forms

• brod, brode

Etymology

From Old English br?d.

Adjective

brood

1. broad

Descendants

• English: broad
• Scots: braid

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mo?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology

Compare Danish måbe, German muffen, French moue.

Verb

mope (third-person singular simple present mopes, present participle moping, simple past and past participle moped)

1. (intransitive) To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
2. (transitive) To make spiritless and stupid.

Derived terms

• moper
• mopery
• mopey

Translations

Noun

mope (plural mopes)

1. The act of moping

2. (archaic) A dull, spiritless person.

   Synonym: mopus

3. (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
   • 2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s

     The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman.[1]

Anagrams

• poem, pome, poëm

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with English mope.

Noun

mope

1. a fool, astonished

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN