mop
An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection…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.
» I mopped the floor.
Я помыл пол.
Я помив підлогу.
Я помила підлогу.
Meaning
13 senses(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
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cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
(countable, uncountable)A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
(countable, humorous, uncountable)A dense head of hair.
He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
(UK, West Midlands, countable, dialectal, uncountable)An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
(Multicultural London English, countable, slang, uncountable)A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
(slang, uncountable)Fellatio.
(countable, uncountable)A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
(countable, uncountable)A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A drunkard.
A made-up face; a grimace.
(UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)The young of any animal.
Examples
118 sentencesI mopped the floor.
Я помив підлогу.
ruЯ помыл пол.
Tom is mopping the kitchen floor.
I really should mop the floor.
I just finished mopping the floor.
ruЯ только пол домыл.
Tom was mopping the kitchen floor.
Translations
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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: mopsSynonyms
7 synonymsWord family
20 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
3 patterns- mopped the kitchen
- mopping the floor
- is mopping the