mop — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

2. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.

3. A dense head of hair.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • scherzoso
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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. An annual fair where servants were historically hired.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • West-Midlands
   • numerabile
   • dialectal
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.

   Altri esempi (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.

   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. A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • numerabile
   • obsoleto
   • non numerabile

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   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. A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)

   Uso

   • Multicultural-London-English
   • numerabile
   • gergo
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped

7. Fellatio.

   Uso

   • gergo
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer

8. A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.

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   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

9. A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.

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   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

10. A drunkard.

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    • numerabile
    • gergo
    • non numerabile

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    Altri esempi (1)

    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.

Verbo

1. To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   to mop (or scrub) a floor

   to mop one's face with a handkerchief

2. To shoplift.

   Uso

   • uso statunitense
   • gergo

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   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: […]

Sostantivo

1. The young of any animal.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • dialectal
   • obsoleto

2. A young girl; a moppet.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • dialectal
   • obsoleto

3. A made-up face; a grimace.

   Esempi

   What mops and mowes it makes! --

   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.

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

Verbo

1. To make a wry expression with the mouth.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

   Esempi

   Flibbertigibbet, [is scared of] moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

Sostantivo

1. cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors

   Sinonimi

   swabswob

   Termini più generali

   cleaning implementcleaning devicecleaning equipment

Verbo

1. to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

   Sinonimi

   wipe upmop up

   Termini più generali

   absorbsuckimbibesoak upsop upsuck updrawtake intake up

   Esempi

   Mop the hallway now

   He mopped her forehead with a towel

2. make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

   Sinonimi

   poutmow

   Termini più generali

   grimacemake a facepull a face

   Esempi

   mop and mow

   The girl pouted