Meaning

13 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Mopp, Wischmopp, Schrubber

    шва́браšvábra

    шва́браšvábra

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

  2. (countable, uncountable)A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.

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

  3. (countable, humorous, uncountable)A dense head of hair.

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

  4. (UK, West Midlands, countable, dialectal, uncountable)An annual fair where servants were historically hired.

  5. (Multicultural London English, countable, slang, uncountable)A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)

  6. (slang, uncountable)Fellatio.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.

  8. (countable, uncountable)A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.

  9. (countable, slang, uncountable)A drunkard.

  10. A made-up face; a grimace.

  11. (UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.

  12. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)The young of any animal.

Examples

118 sentences
  1. I mopped the floor.

    Я помив підлогу.

    ruЯ помыл пол.

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  2. Tom is mopping the kitchen floor.

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  3. I really should mop the floor.

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  4. I just finished mopping the floor.

    ruЯ только пол домыл.

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  5. Tom was mopping the kitchen floor.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
implement for washing floors:
Русский
By meaning 1
implement for washing floors:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
implement for washing floors:

Origin

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”)

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.

From Middle English moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”).

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Forms

plural: mops
Singularmop
Pluralmops

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors:swabswob

Word family

20 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • mopped the kitchen
  • mopping the floor
  • is mopping the

See also

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