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mope

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10
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4
Pronunciation
/məʊp/(UK)
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/məʊp/(UK) · /moʊp/

Definition of mope

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
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verb

  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.

noun

  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.
    “putting gulleries on some or other till they have made by their humouring or gulling ex stulto insanum, a mope or a noddy”
  3. 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.

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Etymology

Late Middle English (as a noun meaning "simpleton, fool"), probably related to mop (“young of an animal, moppet”). Alternatively, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish mopa (“to sulk”), Danish måbe, themselves borrowed from Low German mopen (“to make faces, gape”), of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding lip, pout”). Compare also German muffen, French moue.

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