swab, swob, mop
(noun) cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
pout, mop, mow
(verb) make a sad face and thrust out one’s lower lip; “mop and mow”; “The girl pouted”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
MOP (plural MOPs)
(US, military) GBU-57; Acronym of Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
• (GBU-43): daisycutter / daisy-cutter / daisy cutter (BLU-82)
• MPO, OPM, PMO, POM, Pom, pom
mop (plural mops)
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.
(humorous) A dense head of hair.
(British, dialect) A fair where servants are hired.
(British, dialect) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
A made-up face; a grimace.
mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)
(transitive) To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
(intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.
• MPO, OPM, PMO, POM, Pom, pom
Source: Wiktionary
Mop, n. Etym: [See Mope.]
Definition: A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!" Beau. & Fl.
Mop, v. i.
Definition: To make a wry mouth. [Obs.] Shak.
Mop, n. Etym: [CF. W. mop, mopa, Ir. moipal, Gael. moibeal, moibean; or OF. mappe a napkin (see Map, Napkin).]
1. 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.
2. A fair where servants are hired. [Prov. Eng.]
3. The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. 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.]
Mop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Mopping.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 December 2024
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
