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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

... she saw a man and a dog on the stony beach below, both with their backs to her and oblivious of her approach. Of the man, she had a glimpse only of a broad blue flannel back and a mop of black hair. ...

— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... soft, white leather; the chauffeur and a stiff-backed footman were in blood-red with white facings on their livery. Upon their left sleeves was worked the gold monogram "A. D." In their caps both men wore cockades that resembled shaving-brushes. A tiny mop of a lap-dog, imprisoned within the closed body of the car, was barking frenziedly at the throng. He was an animated bundle of cotton, with shoe-button eyes sewed into one end. As for the car itself, Lorelei decided it to be a combination of every ...

— The Auction Block • Rex Beach

... was indeed a bonny kiddie attired in the very stylish trousers and blouse of small James and shining with Dabney's valeting. His nicely plastered red mop to some extent mitigated the effect of the bare and scratched feet and his rollicking blue eyes over a nose as tip-tilted as Charlotte's own bespoke ...

— The Heart's Kingdom • Maria Thompson Daviess

... the imposition on Mrs. Handsomebody's desk, and listlessly set out to find the others. I could hear Mary Ellen in the kitchen thumping a mop against the legs of the furniture in a savage manner that bespoke no mood of airy persiflage. Therefore, I did not go down the back stairs, but throwing a leg over the hand-rail of the front stairs, I slowly slid to the bottom, and rested there a space on my stomach, an attitude ...

— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

... he did not see them, as he passed his hand beneath his visored cap and scratched reflectively his mop of sandy hair. For the scene before him was but the background in his brain for the vision of peace that was his—a vision that was his often during long nights on the bridge when the old Tryapsic wallowed on the vexed ocean floor, her decks awash, her rigging thrumming in the gale gusts ...

— The Strength of the Strong • Jack London

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