Mop
[mɒp] or [mɑp]
Definition
(n.) A made-up face; a grimace.
(v. i.) To make a wry mouth.
(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.
(n.) A fair where servants are hired.
(n.) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
(v. t.) 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.
Checker: Lola
Definition
n. a bunch of rags &c. fixed on a handle for washing floors windows or the like: anything at all like a mop: (prov.) a hiring-fair.—v.t. to rub or wipe with a mop:—pr.p. mop′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. mopped.—adj. Mop′-head′ed having a shaggy unkempt head of hair.
n. a grimace.—v.i. to make such.
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Examples
- It will do my brains good to have that mop taken off. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- This roofing tar when heated becomes liquid, and can be applied with a mop to the inside of the silo. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- All of it,' he said and cut himself a big piece of bread with his knife and commenced to mop up gravy with it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Hannah will tell us what to do, and we'll have everything nice when you come home, added Beth, getting out her mop and dish tub without delay. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Typed by Cecil