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mop

UK/mɒp/ US/mɑp/ fairly common slang uk us
verb (2) noun (1)

verb

1.

to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop

  • “Mop the hallway now”
  • “He mopped her forehead with a towel”
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2.

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

  • “mop and mow”
  • “The girl pouted”
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noun

1.

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

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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • all mops and brooms
  • mop bucket
  • mop down
  • mop marriage
  • mop squeezer
  • mop the floor with someone
  • mop up
  • mop water
  • on the mop
  • squeegee mop
  • suck the mop

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