mop

See also: Mop, MOP, мор, and мөр

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  source, variously claimed as (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Phoenician or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מפה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from menaphah a fluttering banner, streaming cloth). More at map.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp
• IPA^(key): /mɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɑp

• Audio (US):

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Noun

mop (plural mops)

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. (British, dialect) A fair where servants are hired.
4. (British, dialect) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

5. A made-up face; a grimace.
   • (Can we date this quote by Beaumont & Fletcher and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     What mops and mowes it makes! --

   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 4 scene 1

     Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,'

     And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,'

     Each one, tripping on his toe,

     Will be here with mop and mow.

Derived terms

• mophead
• mop squeezer
• mop water

Descendants

• German: Mopp

Translations

implement for washing floors

• Albanian: shtupë (sq) f
• Arabic: مِمْسَحَة f (mimsaḥa)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِمْسَحَة f (mimsaḥa)

  Moroccan Arabic: جفّافة f (jaffāfa)

• Armenian: պոլի փեդ (poli pʻed)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: шва́бра f (švábra)
• Catalan: pal de fregar m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拖把 (zh) (tuōbǎ)

• Dutch: zwabber (nl), dekzwabber m, mop (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝvabrilo
• Finnish: moppi (fi)
• French: serpillière (fr) f, (Quebec) vadrouille (fr) f, (Quebec) mop (fr) f, torchon (fr) (Belgium)
• Galician: fregona f
• Georgian: შვაბრა (švabra)
• German: (chiefly with thrums) Mopp (de) m; (with fibres) Schrubber (de) m; (with a cloth) Aufnehmer (de) m (regional)
• Greek: σφουγγαρίστρα (el) f (sfoungarístra)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: felmosórongy (hu), felmosó, mop (hu)
• Icelandic: moppa (is) f, þvegill (is) m
• Ido: swabro (io)
• Irish: mapa m, strailleán m
• Italian: lavapavimenti m, spazzolone m, scopino (it) m
• Japanese: モップ (moppu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 대걸레 (ko) (daegeolle), 자루 걸레 (jaru geolle)
• Maori: mapu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mopp m

  Nynorsk: mopp m

• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: mop (pl) m
• Portuguese: esfregão (pt) m
• Russian: шва́бра (ru) f (švábra)
• Scottish Gaelic: sguab f
• Spanish: chascona f (Chile), coleto m (Venezuela, especially colloquial usage), 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)
• Swedish: mopp (sv) c
• Tagalog: lampaso
• Thai: ไม้ถูบ้าน (máai tŏo bâan)
• Turkish: paspas (tr)
• Ukrainian: шва́бра f (švábra)
• Vietnamese: cán lau nhà
• Walloon: loke a rlocter (wa) f, drap d' måjhon (wa) m, wite (wa) f, såpire (wa) f

a grimace

• Catalan: ganyota f
• French: grimace (fr) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: grimasz (hu), fintor (hu)

head of hair

• Finnish: hiuskuontalo
• French: tignasse (fr) f
• Hungarian: hajtincs (hu), hajcsomó (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: straille m
• Italian: zazzera (it) f

Verb

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

   I mop up the skeavy puddles of buai pekpek left by inconsiderate D bags who chew betelnut but don't look for a rubbish bin to spit the pekpek in.

2. (intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Translations

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

• Esperanto: ŝvabri (eo)
• Finnish: mopata (fi), luututa (fi)
• German: moppen (de)
• Greek: σφουγγαρίζω (el) (sfoungarízo)
• Hungarian: felmos (hu), feltöröl (hu), felsúrol
• Icelandic: skúra, moppa (is), skrúbba, þvo (is)
• Ido: swabragar (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: lavare (it), ripulire (it), dare lo spazzolone, ripassare con lo spazzolone
• Maori: mapu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: mopp
• Spanish: fregar (es)
• Swahili: deki (sw)

Anagrams

• MPO, OPM, PMO, POM, Pom, pom

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔp/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

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Noun

mop m (plural moppen, diminutive mopje n)

1. a joke, jest
2. (obsolete) a brick

Synonyms

• grap

Derived terms

• Belgenmop
• kloostermop
• moppenboek
• moppentrommel
• Nederlandermop

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mop.

Noun

mop m (plural mops, diminutive mopje n)

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

   Synonym: zwabber, dekzwabber

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mop

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of moppen
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of moppen