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noun

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

Mop n.

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.

A fair where servants are hired. (Prov. Eng.)

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

... better than Dan'l that the grey was a screw. But he ran down to the stable, fetched the beast out, and didn't even wait to shift his halter for a bridle, but caught up the half of a broken mop-handle that lay by the stable door, and with no better riding whip galloped ...

— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... in the door and bent an approving gaze on the big pinto as he swung out across the pasture lot. The boy's face was small and quizzical, a shaggy mop of tawny hair hanging so low upon his forehead that his mild blue eyes peered forth from under the fringe of it and gave him the air of a surprised terrier, which effect had gained him the ...

— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts

... is "flimsy and miserable" (there's another portmanteau for you). And a "BOROGOVE" is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round—something like a live mop.' ...

— Through the Looking-Glass • Charles Dodgson, AKA Lewis Carroll

... 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

... paying out good credits for you to sit there like you was buying on your own!" The Salarkian who loomed above him spoke accentless, idiomatic Basic Space which came strangely from between his yellow lips. A furred hand thrust the handle of a mop-up stick at the young man, a taloned thumb jerked the direction in which to use that evil-smelling object. Vye Lansor levered himself up the wall, took the mop, setting ...

— Star Hunter • Andre Alice Norton

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