mop
pronunciation
How to pronounce mop in British English:
UK [mɒp]
How to pronounce mop in American English:
US [mɑːp]
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- Noun:
- cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
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- Verb:
- to wash or wipe with or as if with a mop
- make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
Word Origin
- mop
- mop: [15] Mop first appeared in the guise mappe, a late 15th-century sailors’ term for an improvised brush used for caulking ships’ seams with tar. The modern form mop, presumably the same word, did not emerge until the mid-17thcentury. It may be a truncation of an earlier mapple ‘mop’ [15], which came from late Latin mappula ‘towel, cloth’, a diminutive form of Latin mappa ‘cloth’ (source of English map).=> map
- mop (n.)
- late 15c., mappe "bundle of yarn, etc., fastened to the end of a stick for cleaning or spreading pitch on a ship's decks," from Walloon (French) mappe "napkin," from Latin mappa "napkin" (see map (n.)). Modern spelling by 1660s. Of hair, from 1847. Grose ["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," Grose, 1788] has mopsqueezer "A maid servant, particularly a housemaid."
- mop (v.)
- 1709, from mop (n.). Related: Mopped; mopping.
Example
- 1. How about buckets , brushes and a mop ?
- 2. The wife was saying to me " chicken go home " and pointing to a mop which I presumed she was telling me she was going to clean it .
- 3. I guess when the janitor let it be know that he could mop floors and wipe down blackboards he was soon busy with those tasks .
- 4. After a doctor referred a patient with a temperature to a fever clinic - standard practice in china - frustrated relatives beat the doctor and several nurses with a mop and sticks .
- 5. Tempe , ariz. - mark cooper started his work day on a recent morning cleaning the door handles of an office building with a rag , vigorously shaking out a rug at a back entrance and pushing a dust mop down a long hallway .