mop
To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mopTo rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
» I mopped the floor.
Я помыл пол.
Я помив підлогу.
Я помила підлогу.
Meaning
3 senses(transitive)To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
to mop (or scrub) a floor
to mop one's face with a handkerchief
moppen, nass wischen
to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
(US, slang)To shoplift.
(intransitive)To make a wry expression with the mouth.
Examples
118 sentencesI mopped the floor.
Я помив підлогу. — deniko
ruЯ помыл пол. — marafon
Tom is mopping the kitchen floor.
I really should mop the floor.
I just finished mopping the floor.
ruЯ только пол домыл. — marafon
Tom was mopping the kitchen floor.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
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
mops, mopping, mopped, moppedPhrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsSynonyms
4 synonymsWord family
8 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
3 patterns- mopped the kitchen
- mopping the floor
- is mopping the