mop – English noun declension

English noun forms of mop

Noun: mop
Singularmop
Pluralmops

Sample Sentences

  • He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.
  • He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.
  • The hair is very peculiar, being harsh, dry, and frizzly, growing in little tufts or curls, which in youth are very short and compact, but afterwards grow out to a considerable length, forming the compact frizzled mop which is the Papuans' pride and glory. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 445:]
  • I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went. [1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, page 18:]
  • The Mop Fairs attracted the attention of moralists. The hiring system was seen as a means to acquire girls for prostitution; although there is no evidence that this occurred in Stratford, where girls plying for hire were generally accompanied by their formidable mothers. [2014 August 15, Nicholas Fogg, Stratford-upon-Avon: The Biography:]
  • Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop. [2022, Graham Sutherland, Secret Warwick:]
  • Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop. [2022, Graham Sutherland, Secret Warwick:]
  • Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps
  • Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped [2021 July 4, M24, “Plugged In”, Fumez the Engineer (music), 2:16–2:19:]
  • Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer [2019, “Laneswitch”, in True 2 Myself, performed by Lil Tjay:]
  • Left his pa's farm and is now working at the city water works. Some say he's got to drink 'cause he works with blue vitriol and that kind of stuff. He was a drunken mop always. [1931, Folk-say, page 183:]

Etymology

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'mappe', Latin Nouns 'mappa'.

Verbs referencing "mop"

Romanian Nouns mop, German Nouns Mopp, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns mopp, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns mopp, Swedish Nouns mopp, Finnish Nouns moppi, French Nouns moppe.