mopとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /mɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɑp/
• 韻: -ɒp

名詞

mop (複数形 mops)

1. An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
2. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.

   He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.

3. (humorous) A dense head of hair.

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

4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A fair where servants are hired.
5. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The young of any animal.
6. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A young girl; a moppet.
7. A made-up face; a grimace.
   • c. 1621, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act IV, scene ii:

     What mops and mowes it makes! --

   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     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.

8. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
   • 2021 April 7, M24 (lyrics かつ music), “Plugged In”‎^[1], 2:16–2:19:

     Mainstream in this ting but I'm fully on opps
     Got shot with a mop but that boy never dropped

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm

派生語

• mophead
• mop squeezer
• mop water
• on the mop

派生した語

• → Canadian French: moppe
• → German: Mopp
• → Spanish: mopa

動詞

mop (三人称単数 現在形 mops, 現在分詞 mopping, 過去形および過去分詞形 mopped)

1. (transitive) To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.

   to mop (または scrub) a floor

   to mop one's face with a handkerchief

2. (intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Flibbertigibbet,[is scared of]moping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and waiting-women

3. (US, slang) To shoplift.
   • 2013, Martha Gever, ‎Pratibha Parmar, ‎John Greyson, Queer Looks (page 111)

     By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]

参照

• (fair where servants are hired): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

アナグラム

• MPO, OPM, PMO, POM, Pom, pom