mop

See also Mop

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /mɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp
• (GA) IPA: /mɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɑp

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Noun

mop (plural mops)

Wikipedia

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. (humorous) A dense head of hair.

   He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.

3. (UK, dialect) A fair where servants are hired.
4. (UK, dialect) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
5. A made-up face; a grimace.

   What mops and mowes it makes! --Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher

Derived terms

• mophead
• mop squeezer
• mop water

Descendants

• German: Mopp

Translations

implement for washing floors

Arabic: مِمْسَحَة (mímʂaħa) f. Armenian: պոլի փեդ (poli p'ed) Basque: please add this translation if you can Catalan: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 拖把 (cmn) (tuōbǎ) Dutch: zwabber (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: moppi (fi) French: serpillière (fr) f., (Quebec) vadrouille (fr) f., (Quebec) mop (fr) f. Georgian: შვაბრა (ka) (švabra) German: Mopp (de) m. Greek: σφουγγαρίστρα (el) (sfoungarístra) f. Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: felmosórongy (hu) Italian: lavapavimenti (it) m. Japanese: モップ (móppu) Korean: 몹 (mop), 자루 걸레 (jaru geolre)

Old English: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: esfregão (pt) m. Russian: швабра (ru) (švábra) f. Scottish Gaelic: sguab (gd) f. Spanish: chascona f. (Chile), coleto m. (Venezuela - especially colloquial usage ; strictly speaking, "coleto" means "floorcloth"), fregona f. (Spain), lampazo m. (Argentina, Nicaragua, Northwestern Venezuela), mapo m. (Puerto Rico), mechudo m. (Mexico), mocho m. (Eastern Spain), mopa f. (Venezuela - especially commercial usage), palo de trapear m. (Cuba), suape m. (Dominican Republic), trapeador m. (Central America, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru), trapero m. (Colombia) Swahili: deki (sw) Swedish: mopp (sv) c. Tagalog: lampaso (tl) Thai: ไม้ถูบ้าน (máai tŏo bâan) Turkish: paspas (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Persian: please add this translation if you can

a grimace

Hungarian: grimasz (hu), fintor (hu)

Swahili: deki (sw)

head of hair

Finnish: hiuskuontalo (fi) French: tignasse (fr) f. Hungarian: hajtincs (hu), hajcsomó (hu)

Italian: zazzera (it) f. Swahili: deki (sw)

Verb

mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)

1. (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

Translations

to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop

Finnish: mopata (fi) German: moppen (de) Hungarian: felmos (hu), feltöröl (hu), felsúrol (hu)

Italian: asciugare (it) Swahili: deki (sw)

Anagrams

• OPM
• PMO
• pom, POM

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

mop m. (plural moppen, diminutive mopje)

1. a joke, jest, hoax

Synonyms

• grap

Derived terms

• Belgenmop
• Nederlandermop

Noun

mop ? (plural mops, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. a mop (an implement for washing floors, etc.)