mop

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mop"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Mopan.

Symbol

mop

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mopan Maya.

See also

English

Pronunciation

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

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)

Commercial mops (sense 1)
Starfish mop (sense 9)
  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.
    He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
  3. (humorous) A dense head of hair.
    He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 445:
      The hair is very peculiar, being harsh, dry, and frizzly, growing in little tufts or curls, which in youth are very short and compact, but afterwards grow out to a considerable length, forming the compact frizzled mop which is the Papuans' pride and glory.
  4. (UK, dialect, West Midlands) An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
    • 1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire‎[1], page 18:
      I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge. […] 'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.
    • 2014 August 15, Nicholas Fogg, Stratford-upon-Avon: The Biography‎[2]:
      The Mop Fairs attracted the attention of moralists. The hiring system was seen as a means to acquire girls for prostitution; although there is no evidence that this occurred in Stratford, where girls plying for hire were generally accompanied by their formidable mothers.
    • 2022, Graham Sutherland, Secret Warwick‎[3]:
      Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.
  5. (UK, obsolete) A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
    • 2022, Graham Sutherland, Secret Warwick‎[4]:
      Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.
  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
    • 2021 April 7, M24, “Plugged In”, Fumez the Engineer (music)‎[5], 2:16–2:19:
      Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps
      Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped
  7. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio.
    • 2019, “Laneswitch”, in True 2 Myself, performed by Lil Tjay:
      Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer
  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.
    • 1931, Folk-say, page 183:
      Left his pa's farm and is now working at the city water works. Some say he's got to drink 'cause he works with blue vitriol and that kind of stuff. He was a drunken mop always.
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.
    to mop (or scrub) a floor
    to mop one's face with a handkerchief
    • 1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 10, in Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC:
      There was a staircase at the end of the hallway, and as I stood mopping my brow (only now did I realize how hot it had been out-of-doors) and staring, to stare at something, at an old gray tennis ball that lay on an oak chest, there came from the upper landing the contralto voice of Mrs. Haze, who leaning over the banisters inquired melodiously, “Is that Monsieur Humbert?” A bit of cigarette ash dropped from there in addition.
  2. (US, slang) To shoplift.
    • 2013, Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar, John Greyson, Queer Looks, page 111:
      By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]
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. (UK, dialect, obsolete) The young of any animal.
  3. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A young girl; a moppet.
  4. A made-up face; a grimace.
    • c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii:
      What mops and mowes it makes! --
    • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
      Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,'
      And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,'
      Each one, tripping on his toe,
      Will be here with mop and mow.
    • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 302:
      It looked much prettier than before, but still maintained the elfish cast of the eye, like his father, whilst two or three children more had undergone a strange metamorphosis. For there sat on either side the bed's head, a couple of little flat-nosed imps, who with "mops and mows," and with many a grimace and grin, were busied to no end in scratching their own polls, or in pulling the fairy lady's ears with their long and hairy paws.

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.
    • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
      Flibbertigibbet, [is scared of] moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women
    • 1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XII. The Peasants' Camp”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:
      There were women and children as well as men in the place, and all, ragged and half naked, mopped and mowed at the passers, or, leaping to their feet, defied them with unspeakable words and gestures.
Derived terms
References
  • (fair where servants are hired): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

Cameroon Pidgin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔp/

Noun

mop

  1. mouth

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔp/
  • Audio:(file)
  • 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”).[1]

Noun

mop m (plural moppen, diminutive mopje n or moppie 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
  • Belgenmop
  • kloostermop
  • moppen tappen
  • moppenboek
  • moppentrommel
  • Nederlandermop
Descendants
  • → Indonesian: mop (only found in the phrase April Mop)
  • → Manado Malay: mop

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “mop2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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

Unadapted borrowing 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

Manado Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch mop (“joke”).

Noun

mop

  1. joke

References

  • Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sulawesi Utara (2021), Kamus Dwibahasa Melayu Manado-Indonesia (in Indonesian), Manado: Balai Bahasa Provinsi Sulawesi Utara

Polish

mop

Etymology

    Borrowed from English mop.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmɔp/
    • Audio:(file)
    • 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

    Declension of mop
    singular plural
    nominative mop mopy
    genitive mopa mopów
    dative mopowi mopom
    accusative mop, mopa mopy
    instrumental mopem mopami
    locative mopie mopach
    vocative mopie mopy

    Derived terms

    verbs
    • mopować impf

    Further reading

    • “mop”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[6] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • “mop”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[7] (in Polish)

    Romanian

    Etymology

      Borrowed from English mop.

      Noun

      mop n (plural mopuri)

      1. mop (an implement for washing floors)

      Declension

      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative mop mopul mopuri mopurile
      genitive-dative mop mopului mopuri mopurilor
      vocative mopule mopurilor
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