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▪ I. mopus1 Obs. exc. dial. (see E.D.D.).|ˈməʊpəs|
[f. mope n. (? with quasi-Latin ending).]
A mope; a dull, stupid person.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew s.v., A meer Mopus grown, become dispirited, dull and Stupid. 1700Congreve Way of World iii. i, Dids't thou not hear me, Mopus? 1729Swift Grand Quest. Debated 27 I'm grown a mere mopus; no company comes But a rabble of tenants and rusty dull rums.
▪ II. † ˈmopus2 Obs.
In Barbados, the local name of the Knot, Tringa canutus.
1750G. Hughes Barbados 78 Of the Mopuses. There are three Sorts of these..the Large, the Small, and the Hiding Mopus. 1848in Schomburgk Hist. Barbados 681.
▪ III. mopus3 slang.|ˈməʊpəs|
†a. ‘A halfpenny or farthing’ (B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, a 1700).
b. pl. Money in general.
1769Stratford Jubilee ii. i. 32 If she [a rich widow] has the mopus's, I'll have her, as snug as a bug in a rug. 1798Geraldina I. 44 You have got the mopusses, the ready. 1840New Monthly Mag. LX. 373 Without the mopuses to pay for your call, the demand will be like Owen Glendower's demand for ‘spirits from the vasty deep’. 1892M. Williams Round Lond. (1893) 23 They hav'nt got any mopusses.
attrib.1848Thackeray Van. Fair vi, Look to the pewter room, Blowser. You, Mark, to the old gaff's mopus box! |