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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /məʊp/
• (General American) IPA: /moʊp/
• 韻: -əʊp

動詞

mope (third-person singular simple present mopes, present participle moping, simple past and past participle moped)

1. (intransitive) To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
2. (transitive) To make spiritless and stupid.

派生語

名詞

mope (plural mopes)

1. The act of moping

   When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.

2. (archaic) A dull, spiritless person.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     putting gulleries on some or other till they have made by their humouring or gulling ex stulto insanum, a mope or a noddy

   Synonym: mopus

3. (pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
   • 2011: LA Weekly, documenting uses dating to the 1990s

     The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman.[1]

参考

• mope-eyed

アナグラム

• poem, pome, poëm