mopsy

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English

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From mop +‎ -sy.

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mopsy (plural mopsies)

  1. Synonym of moppet.
  2. (obsolete) A slatternly, untidy woman.
    • 1583, P. Stubbes, The Puritan's Anatomie of Abuses:
      rich hande-kercheefes, in their handes, and sometymes laied acrosse over their shoulders and neckes, borrowed for the moste parte of their pretie Mopsies and loovyng Bessies for bussyng them in the darcke
    • 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:
      However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

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Noun

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mopsy m animal

  1. nominative plural of mops
  2. accusative plural of mops
  3. vocative plural of mops