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▪ I. moping, vbl. n.|ˈməʊpɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the vb. mope; an instance of this.
1671H. Foulis Hist. Rom. Treasons (1681) 63 One may know his meaning by his moping. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. i. 541 Full of museful Mopings, which presage The loss of Reason, and conclude in Rage. 1850Kingsley Alton Locke xxxvi, Long melancholy mopings..were periodically succeeded by wild frenzies.
attrib.1812Byron Ch. Har. i. xxviii, Again he rouses from his moping fits.
▪ II. moping, ppl. a.|ˈməʊpɪŋ|
[f. mope v. + -ing2.]
That mopes; † wandering aimlessly, bewildered (obs.); in mod. use, dejected, dull, spiritless.
1568Hist. Jacob & Esau i. i. A iij b, Nowe a mischief on all mopyng fooles for mee. 1593Drayton Ecl. vi. 167 See where yon little moping Lambe of mine It selfe hath tangled in a crawling Breere. 1674Milton P.L. (ed. 2) xi. 485 Moaping Melancholie. 1709–10Steele Tatler No. 125 ⁋2 A moaping Lover would grow a pleasant Fellow. 1750Gray Elegy iii, The moping owl. 1851Borrow Lavengro lxx, How sad and moping must life be in mighty Jupiter, on which no sun ever shines. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 402 Moping sounds came from the trees and sky, as from Sorrow whispering to Night.
Hence ˈmopingly adv., in a moping manner.
1880R. Broughton Sec. Th. i. viii, She sits..mopingly thinking from breakfast to bed-time. |