Mop

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1 Pronunciation 2 Noun 3 Verb 4 Transitive 1 Dutch 1.1 Noun 1.2 Noun

Pronunciation

\Mop\

Noun

mop

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.] --Halliwell.

4.A made-up face; a grimace.

``What mops and mowes it makes! --Beau. & Fl.

{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

to mop

• imp. & p. p.: mopped.
• p. pr. & vb. n.: mopping.

Transitive

To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop (or scrub) a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.

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Dutch

Noun

mop m (plural: moppen , diminutive: mopje , plural diminutive: mopjes )

1. a joke, jest, hoax

Noun

mop (plural: mops)

1. a mop (an implement for washing floors, etc.)