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mope
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)
- (intransitive) To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
- (transitive) To make spiritless and stupid.
Derived terms
- moper
- mopery
- mopey
Translations
Noun
mope (plural mopes)
- The act of moping
- (archaic) A dull, spiritless person.
- Synonym: mopus
- (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]
- 2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s
Anagrams
- poem, pome, poëm
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Etymology
Cognate with English mope.
Noun
mope
- 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
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mopping
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?p??
Verb
mopping
- present participle of mop
Noun
mopping (plural moppings)
- The process of cleaning with a mop.
- 2013, Evelyn I. Funda, Weeds: A Farm Daughter's Lament (page 32)
- Even as it buckled over the years and the nail heads at the edges popped up and rusted from repeated moppings, that floor symbolized her unyielding independence.
- 2013, Evelyn I. Funda, Weeds: A Farm Daughter's Lament (page 32)
- An application of molten asphalt to a roof etc.
See also
- hot-mop
Anagrams
- pomping
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