MOPとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map, nape, and nappe.

名詞

mop (countable and uncountable, plural 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. (British, dialect, West Midlands) An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
   • 1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire‎, page 18:

     I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge. […] 'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.

   • 2014 August 15, Nicholas Fogg, Stratford-upon-Avon: The Biography‎:

     The Mop Fairs attracted the attention of moralists. The hiring system was seen as a means to acquire girls for prostitution; although there is no evidence that this occurred in Stratford, where girls plying for hire were generally accompanied by their formidable mothers.

   • 2022, Graham Sutherland, Secret Warwick‎:

     Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.

5. (British, obsolete) A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
   • 2022, Graham Sutherland, Secret Warwick‎:

     Mop Fairs: Today's annual events are the modern version of the old hiring fairs, where people attended seeking employment or to change it. They are named after the practice of hopefully skilled employees carrying tassels, known as mops, in their buttonholes indicating their occupation. Those who had no trade carried a mop head. At the end of the following week, they could change employers or employees, at what was called the Runaway Mop.

6. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm

   • 2021 April 7, M24, “Plugged In”, Fumez the Engineer (music)‎, 2:16–2:19:

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

7. (slang, uncountable) Fellatio.
   • 2019, “Laneswitch”, in True 2 Myself, performed by Lil Tjay:

     Had his thot give me mop in the back of my Bimmer

8. (graffiti) A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
9. (fishing) A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
10. (slang) A drunkard.
    • 1931, Folk-say, page 183:

      Left his pa's farm and is now working at the city water works. Some say he's got to drink 'cause he works with blue vitriol and that kind of stuff. He was a drunken mop always.

派生語

派生した語

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

参照

• (drunkard): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

動詞

mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)

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

   to mop (or scrub) a floor

   to mop one's face with a handkerchief

2. (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: […]

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 moppe (“fool, simpleton; derisive gesture; child, baby, doll”), of obscure origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“pout, protruding lip”).

Compare Low German mop, mops (“simpleton; pugnosed dog”), Dutch mop, mops (“pugnosed dog”), and the verb mope.

名詞

mop (plural mops)

1. (British, dialect, obsolete) The young of any animal.
2. (British, dialect, obsolete) A young girl; a moppet.
3. 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, Act IV, scene ii:

     What mops and mowes it makes! --

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

動詞

mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)

1. (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, [Act IV, scene i]:

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

   • 1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XII. The Peasants' Camp”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:

     There were women and children as well as men in the place, and all, ragged and half naked, mopped and mowed at the passers, or, leaping to their feet, defied them with unspeakable words and gestures.

派生語

• moppet

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