mopen.

Brit.

/məʊp/, U.S.

/moʊp/

Forms: 1500s moope, 1600s– mope.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Partly of uncertain origin. Etymon: mope v.

Etymology: In sense 1, probably related to mop n.¹ and mopish adj.¹ (see discussion s.v. mop n.¹). In senses 2, 3, and 4 < mope v.

1. A fool, a simpleton; a slow-witted or inept person. Cf. mop n.¹ 1. Now chiefly U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun]

dizzyc825

cang?c1225

foolc1225

apec1330

mopc1330

saddle-goosec1346

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foltc1390

mopec1390

fona1400

buffardc1430

fopc1440

joppec1440

fonda1450

fondlinga1450

insipienta1513

plume of feathers1530

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dizzard1546

Little Witham?1548

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dawkin1565

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nigion1570

niddicock1577

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Jack with the feather1581

niddipol1582

noddyship?1589

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Gibraltar1593

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coxcombry1600

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fooliaminy1608

silly ass1608

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Jack Adams1656

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nigmenog1699

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silly billy1749

tommy noddy1774

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nincom1800

silly1807

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omadhaun1818

potwalloper1820

mosy1824

amadan1825

gump1825

gype1825

oonchook1825

prawn1845

suck-egg1851

goosey1852

nowmun1854

pelican1856

poppy-show1860

buggerlugs1861

damfool1881

mudhead1882

yob1886

peanut head1891

haggis bag1892

poop1893

gazob1906

mush1906

wump1908

zob1911

gorm1912

goof1916

goofus1916

gubbins1916

dumb cluck1922

twat1922

B.F.1925

goofer1925

bird brain1926

berk1929

Berkeley1929

Berkeley Hunt1929

ding1929

loogan1929

stupido1929

poop-stick1930

nelly1931

droop1932

diddy1933

slappy1937

goof ball1938

get1940

poon1940

tonk1941

clot1942

yuck1943

possum1945

gobdaw1947

momo1953

nig-nog1953

plonker1955

weenie1956

nong-nong1959

Berkshire Hunt1960

balloon1965

doofus1965

dork1965

nana1965

shit-for-brains1966

schmoll1967

tosspot1967

lunchbox1969

doof1971

tonto1973

dorkus1979

motorhead1979

mouth-breather1979

wally1980

wally brain1981

der-brain1983

langer1983

numpty1985

sotong1988

fanny1995

fannybaws2000

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 52 Haue merci on me mope.

?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. xii. sig. O.iij Nor thou shalt nat thereof be rekened the more moope and fole, but the more wyse.

1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) i. ii. iv. iv. 142 They will be scoffing,..till they haue made by their humoring or gulling, ex stulto insanum, a mope or a noddy.

1789 C. Vallancey Vocab. Lang. Forth & Bargie in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1788 2 Antiquities 32 Mope,..a fool.

a1827 J. Poole Gloss. Old Dial. Forth & Bargy (1867) 88 Licke a mope an a mile, he gazt ing a mize.

1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 102 Mope, a body's 'at's nut ower mich to deea, an' nivver gits 't diun.

1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan vi. 259 They had a lot of pep, and weren't a bunch of mopes.

1962 E. O'Brien Lonely Girl i. 8 It happens to country mopes like you, as soon as you dance with a fellow.

1995 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 2 Apr. e2/1 He's just the kind of mope everyone picks on.

2. A person who mopes; someone given to prolonged spells of gloom or dejection.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > dejected or gloomy person

unhappy hooka1529

drooper1577

disconsolate1631

desponder1689

mope1693

moper1721

despondent1812

misery1888

crape-hanger1921

Dismal Desmond1926

Dismal Jimmy1927

crêpe-hanger1930

Eeyore1932

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 125 I shou'd grow the veriest Mope in the World, if I shou'd forsake this Town.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 21 A Poet's Form she sets before their eyes, No meagre, muse-rid mope, adust and thin.

1747 Fool (1748) II. 257 All dull and disconsolate, as the Mopes in Bedlam.

a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1770) IV. 121 She is become such a mope, that she is really fit company for no one but herself.

1801 Port Folio 16 May 160/2 Let wit be unbridled, give fancy her scope, Banish each prozer, enliven each mope.

1878 M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares I. xiii. 196 She is no mope, only thoughtful and quiet.

1994 Magnet May 25/3 [Certain publications] tried to paint us as a bunch of totally depressed mopes.

3. In plural. Usually with the. A gloomy mood, a fit of depression.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of

gloominga1400

dumpa1535

mubble fubbles1589

mulligrubs1599

mumps1599

mood1609

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mopes1742

gloom1744

humdrums1757

dismals1764

horror1768

mournfuls1794

doldrum1811

doleful1822

glumps1825

jim-jams1896

katzenjammer1897

the sniffles1903

mopery1907

joes1916

woofits1918

cafard1924

jimmies1928

the blahs1969

downer1970

1742 J. Dance Pamela iii. i. 27 What in the Mopes still?

1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 944 I have got the mopes.

1838 W. M. Thackeray Yellowplush Corr. iii Master still in the mopes.

1845 Peter Parley's Ann. 199 If I go with my eyes fixed upon the ground, they say I have got the mopes, and am going mad.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 29 Mar. 3/2 If you did not take exercise you fell into a state of weakness and mopes, in which you were an easy victim to enteric.

1978 K. Amis Jake's Thing (1979) viii. 79 They switched to treating him like a child just bravely out of its mopes or dumps.

4. Criminals' slang (chiefly U.S.). A swift or stealthy departure; an escape, a getaway. Esp. in to cop (also take) a mope.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > as thieves

getaway1849

get1897

mope1926

stoppo1974

1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6 Cop a mope, take a walk.

1928 New Yorker 8 Dec. 58 You got maybe a hundred seconds to work your keys, get in, unlock it, start the car, and cop a mope.

1936 L. Duncan Over Wall xxiv. 329 ‘How would you like to take a mope, or have you got that stuff out of your bean?’

1970 E. Thompson Garden of Sand 270 ‘Cop a mope,’ was his advice to Jack.

1975 F. Powledge Mud Show 37 These first of Mays you hire, first time it rains they take a mope.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mopev.

Brit.

/məʊp/, U.S.

/moʊp/

Forms: 1500s–1600s moop, 1500s–1600s moope, 1500s– mope, 1600s–1700s moape, 1600s–1700s (1800s– English regional (Yorkshire)) moap, 1800s– maap (English regional (northern)), 1800s– mahp (English regional (northern)), 1800s– maup (English regional (northern)), 1800s– mawp (English regional (northern)); also Scottish 1800s– mawp, 1900s– map.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mope n.

Etymology: Probably < mope n. Compare mop v.¹ Connection with mop v.² is doubtful.

1. intransitive. To be in an abstracted or stupefied state; to act without conscious thought; to wander aimlessly, walk slowly. Also with about. Now regional (chiefly North American and English regional (northern)).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > wander in thought [verb (intransitive)] > proceed aimlessly

ramblec1443

mope1568

niff-naff1728

moon1763

1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau i. i. sig. A.iij^v Nowe a mischief on all mopyng fooles for mee.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 70 What deuill wast That thus hath cosund you at hodman blind; Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight... Or but a sickly part of one true sence Could not so mope.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 243 Euen in a dreame, were we diuided from them, And were brought moaping hither.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 130 What a wretched and peeuish fellow is this King of England, to mope with his fat-brain'd followers so farre out of his knowledge.

1760 W. Armistead Let. 17 May in W. Carr Dial. Craven (1828) II. 356 I mopt a piece farther.

1892 J. Barlow Bog-land (1893) 130 And I seen granny mopin' about wid the fright puckered up in her face.

a1903 J. P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 159/1 [S. Nottinghamshire] A moped about i' the dark, till a were sick on it.

1925 Amer. Legion Weekly 2 Jan. 12 The leadin' comedian..mopes onto the stage.

1994 P. Roth Mercy of Rude Stream 215 So the two, inseparable pals,..moped about Farley's haunts.

a. intransitive. To remain in a listless, apathetic condition, without making any effort to rouse oneself; to abandon oneself to ennui; to be dull, dejected, and spiritless. Frequently with about, around. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)]

heavyOE

fallOE

droopena1225

lourc1290

droopc1330

to abate one's countenance (also cheer)a1350

dullc1374

fainta1375

languora1375

languisha1382

afflicta1393

gloppen?a1400

weary1434

appalc1450

to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)c1450

peak1580

dumpc1585

mopea1592

sink1603

bate1607

deject1644

despond1655

alamort?1705

sadden1718

dismal1780

munge1790

mug1828

to get one's tail down1853

to have (also get) the pip1881

shadow1888

to have (one's) ass in a sling1960

a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) iv. sig. G3 And as for Mars..He moping sits behind the kitchin doore.

1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode v. ii. 95 Sitting moping like Three or Four Melancholy Birds in a spacious vollary.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 2. ⁋2 Here I sit moping all the live-long Night, Devour'd with Spleen, and Stranger to Delight.

1770 S. Foote Lame Lover ii. 39 For this fortnight he has gone about sighing, and musing, and moping.

1795 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana 155 See yonder cloud, that mopes with mournful shade.

1824 J. Constable Let. 20 June (1964) II. 338 They seem to know how unhappy they are by moping about.

1833 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 10 Nov. 55/1 I for one, will never mope when I can be merry.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. v. 112 He's out somewhere, thinking of what is going on, instead of moping in the house.

?1889 M. Wood Pidge (MS) iii. 70 Well, if I've got to mope around as though I'd been run through a cloths wringer, I don't want to be a subdued society girl.

1935 J. Steinbeck Tortilla Flat xv. 261 Danny began to mope on the front porch, so that his friends thought him ill.

1959 R. Lardner Best Short Stories IV. 65 I tell her she's silly to mope about a man that's been dead four years.

1991 Sports Ilustr. 24 June 23/3 I've been with teams where you had to mope around for 15 minutes after every loss just to show that you love the game.

b. transitive. To waste or fritter away (one's life, etc.) in a state of dejection.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)] > spend or pass time in dejection

pine1597

linger1725

mope1791

1791 C. Smith Celestina II. 227 Celestina has too much spirit and too much sense to mope away her youth and beauty.

a1792 Bp. G. Horne Disc. (1795) IV. xii. 279 His religion..directs him not to shut himself up in a cloister alone, there to mope and moan away his life.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxvi. 290 Twenty more will mope away their lives without a wish or attempt to make a mark in the world, because they have no ambition apart from their attachment to you.

1990 P. Pulsford Lee's Ghost 31 Perhaps, she thought, I'm Penelope moping away my life in the underworld.

3. transitive. To make gloomily dejected or melancholy; to cause to mope. Also reflexive and in passive. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)]

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to get down1861

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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be dejected [verb (reflexive)]

mope1799

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxii. 299 Not moop't at home, but mapping Lands.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. iv. 198 Many men are vndone by this means, moped, and so deiected, that they are neuer to be recovered.

1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iv. 365 It is doubtless a great Disgrace to our Religion to imagin..that it is an Enemy to Mirth and Chearfulness,..that men are never serious enough till they are mope'd into Statues.

1730 J. Clarke Ess. Educ. Youth (ed. 2) 140 Boys of mild..Tempers, must be dispirited, and moaped..by it.

1799 J. West Tale of Times II. 94 The viscountess..urged her not to mope herself at home.

1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw xxxvi My father is moped to death for want of you both.

1881 M. E. Herbert Edith 16 Gordon could not compel her to remain at home and ‘mope herself to death’ as she expressed it.

1903 Longman's Mag. Apr. 494 Any one can see you are moped to death.

†4. transitive. To confine or shut up in a place. Chiefly with up. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)]

beloukOE

loukOE

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jigger1887

corral1890

maroon1904

to bang up1950

to lock down1971

1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto i. 48 I do not wish to see you moped in a convent, as you would be if you had your will.

1781 T. Holcroft Duplicity ii. i. 22 My gracious!——What zignifications my coming to London zity, an' I must be moped up a this'n; I will go, zo I will.

1829 B. Webster High Ways & By Ways i. i. 9 'Tis not well, I think, miss, to be moped up here, where nobody ever knocks at the door.

1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. ii. i. 73 They [sc. the doctors]..drenched the lad with mercury and moped him up in a dark room.

1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood xvi. 140 The child shouldn't be moped up here, all winter!

1892 S. Baring-Gould In Roar of Sea III. xlii. 84 She was moped up in her room. She was imprisoned in this house, and she was wasting, dying in confinement.

5. intransitive. U.S. Criminals' slang. To go away, to escape.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away quietly or stealthily

steal1154

to steal one's wayc1385

skew?a1400

astealc1400

fleetc1400

slip?c1450

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flinch1563

shift1594

foist1603

shab1699

slope1851

smuggle1865

sneak1896

mope1914

to oil out1945

1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 60 Mope, general currency, to walk away; to remove one's presence to another locality or spot.

1933 Amer. Speech Oct. 29/2 All I want's the least little show of a chanct, 'n' I'll mope.

1961 A. J. Roth Shame of Our Wounds 13 He's moped out of here seven or eight times.

1975 J. McKennon Horse Dung Trail 200 Several men have already ‘moped’ as you know.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mope
释义	mopen. Brit. /məʊp/, U.S. /moʊp/ Forms: 1500s moope, 1600s– mope. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by conversion. Partly of uncertain origin. Etymon: mope v. Etymology: In sense 1, probably related to mop n.¹ and mopish adj.¹ (see discussion s.v. mop n.¹). In senses 2, 3, and 4 < mope v. 1. A fool, a simpleton; a slow-witted or inept person. Cf. mop n.¹ 1. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] dizzyc825 cang?c1225 foolc1225 apec1330 mopc1330 saddle-goosec1346 mis-feelinga1382 foltc1390 mopec1390 fona1400 buffardc1430 fopc1440 joppec1440 fonda1450 fondlinga1450 insipienta1513 plume of feathers1530 bobolynec1540 dizzard1546 Little Witham?1548 nodc1563 dawkin1565 cocknel1566 nigion1570 niddicock1577 nodcock1577 cuckoo1581 Jack with the feather1581 niddipol1582 noddyship?1589 stirkc1590 fonkin1591 Gibraltar1593 fopper1598 noddypeak1598 coxcombry1600 simple1600 gowka1605 nup1607 fooliaminy1608 silly ass1608 dosser-head1612 dor1616 glow-worm1624 liripipea1625 doodle1629 sop1637 spalt1639 fool's head1650 buffle1655 Jack Adams1656 bufflehead1659 nincompoopc1668 bavian1678 nokes1679 foolanea1681 cod1699 hulver-head1699 nigmenog1699 single ten1699 mud1703 dowf1722 foolatum1740 silly billy1749 tommy noddy1774 arsec1785 nincom1800 silly1807 slob1810 omadhaun1818 potwalloper1820 mosy1824 amadan1825 gump1825 gype1825 oonchook1825 prawn1845 suck-egg1851 goosey1852 nowmun1854 pelican1856 poppy-show1860 buggerlugs1861 damfool1881 mudhead1882 yob1886 peanut head1891 haggis bag1892 poop1893 gazob1906 mush1906 wump1908 zob1911 gorm1912 goof1916 goofus1916 gubbins1916 dumb cluck1922 twat1922 B.F.1925 goofer1925 bird brain1926 berk1929 Berkeley1929 Berkeley Hunt1929 ding1929 loogan1929 stupido1929 poop-stick1930 nelly1931 droop1932 diddy1933 slappy1937 goof ball1938 get1940 poon1940 tonk1941 clot1942 yuck1943 possum1945 gobdaw1947 momo1953 nig-nog1953 plonker1955 weenie1956 nong-nong1959 Berkshire Hunt1960 balloon1965 doofus1965 dork1965 nana1965 shit-for-brains1966 schmoll1967 tosspot1967 lunchbox1969 doof1971 tonto1973 dorkus1979 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 wally1980 wally brain1981 der-brain1983 langer1983 numpty1985 sotong1988 fanny1995 fannybaws2000 c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 52 Haue merci on me mope. ?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. xii. sig. O.iij Nor thou shalt nat thereof be rekened the more moope and fole, but the more wyse. 1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) i. ii. iv. iv. 142 They will be scoffing,..till they haue made by their humoring or gulling, ex stulto insanum, a mope or a noddy. 1789 C. Vallancey Vocab. Lang. Forth & Bargie in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1788 2 Antiquities 32 Mope,..a fool. a1827 J. Poole Gloss. Old Dial. Forth & Bargy (1867) 88 Licke a mope an a mile, he gazt ing a mize. 1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 102 Mope, a body's 'at's nut ower mich to deea, an' nivver gits 't diun. 1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan vi. 259 They had a lot of pep, and weren't a bunch of mopes. 1962 E. O'Brien Lonely Girl i. 8 It happens to country mopes like you, as soon as you dance with a fellow. 1995 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 2 Apr. e2/1 He's just the kind of mope everyone picks on. 2. A person who mopes; someone given to prolonged spells of gloom or dejection. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > dejected or gloomy person unhappy hooka1529 drooper1577 disconsolate1631 desponder1689 mope1693 moper1721 despondent1812 misery1888 crape-hanger1921 Dismal Desmond1926 Dismal Jimmy1927 crêpe-hanger1930 Eeyore1932 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 125 I shou'd grow the veriest Mope in the World, if I shou'd forsake this Town. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 21 A Poet's Form she sets before their eyes, No meagre, muse-rid mope, adust and thin. 1747 Fool (1748) II. 257 All dull and disconsolate, as the Mopes in Bedlam. a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1770) IV. 121 She is become such a mope, that she is really fit company for no one but herself. 1801 Port Folio 16 May 160/2 Let wit be unbridled, give fancy her scope, Banish each prozer, enliven each mope. 1878 M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares I. xiii. 196 She is no mope, only thoughtful and quiet. 1994 Magnet May 25/3 [Certain publications] tried to paint us as a bunch of totally depressed mopes. 3. In plural. Usually with the. A gloomy mood, a fit of depression. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of gloominga1400 dumpa1535 mubble fubbles1589 mulligrubs1599 mumps1599 mood1609 blues1741 mopes1742 gloom1744 humdrums1757 dismals1764 horror1768 mournfuls1794 doldrum1811 doleful1822 glumps1825 jim-jams1896 katzenjammer1897 the sniffles1903 mopery1907 joes1916 woofits1918 cafard1924 jimmies1928 the blahs1969 downer1970 1742 J. Dance Pamela iii. i. 27 What in the Mopes still? 1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 944 I have got the mopes. 1838 W. M. Thackeray Yellowplush Corr. iii Master still in the mopes. 1845 Peter Parley's Ann. 199 If I go with my eyes fixed upon the ground, they say I have got the mopes, and am going mad. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 29 Mar. 3/2 If you did not take exercise you fell into a state of weakness and mopes, in which you were an easy victim to enteric. 1978 K. Amis Jake's Thing (1979) viii. 79 They switched to treating him like a child just bravely out of its mopes or dumps. 4. Criminals' slang (chiefly U.S.). A swift or stealthy departure; an escape, a getaway. Esp. in to cop (also take) a mope. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > as thieves getaway1849 get1897 mope1926 stoppo1974 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 6 Cop a mope, take a walk. 1928 New Yorker 8 Dec. 58 You got maybe a hundred seconds to work your keys, get in, unlock it, start the car, and cop a mope. 1936 L. Duncan Over Wall xxiv. 329 ‘How would you like to take a mope, or have you got that stuff out of your bean?’ 1970 E. Thompson Garden of Sand 270 ‘Cop a mope,’ was his advice to Jack. 1975 F. Powledge Mud Show 37 These first of Mays you hire, first time it rains they take a mope. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mopev. Brit. /məʊp/, U.S. /moʊp/ Forms: 1500s–1600s moop, 1500s–1600s moope, 1500s– mope, 1600s–1700s moape, 1600s–1700s (1800s– English regional (Yorkshire)) moap, 1800s– maap (English regional (northern)), 1800s– mahp (English regional (northern)), 1800s– maup (English regional (northern)), 1800s– mawp (English regional (northern)); also Scottish 1800s– mawp, 1900s– map. Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mope n. Etymology: Probably < mope n. Compare mop v.¹ Connection with mop v.² is doubtful. 1. intransitive. To be in an abstracted or stupefied state; to act without conscious thought; to wander aimlessly, walk slowly. Also with about. Now regional (chiefly North American and English regional (northern)). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > wander in thought [verb (intransitive)] > proceed aimlessly ramblec1443 mope1568 niff-naff1728 moon1763 1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau i. i. sig. A.iij^v Nowe a mischief on all mopyng fooles for mee. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 70 What deuill wast That thus hath cosund you at hodman blind; Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight... Or but a sickly part of one true sence Could not so mope. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 243 Euen in a dreame, were we diuided from them, And were brought moaping hither. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 130 What a wretched and peeuish fellow is this King of England, to mope with his fat-brain'd followers so farre out of his knowledge. View more context for this quotation 1760 W. Armistead Let. 17 May in W. Carr Dial. Craven (1828) II. 356 I mopt a piece farther. 1892 J. Barlow Bog-land (1893) 130 And I seen granny mopin' about wid the fright puckered up in her face. a1903 J. P. Kirk in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 159/1 [S. Nottinghamshire] A moped about i' the dark, till a were sick on it. 1925 Amer. Legion Weekly 2 Jan. 12 The leadin' comedian..mopes onto the stage. 1994 P. Roth Mercy of Rude Stream 215 So the two, inseparable pals,..moped about Farley's haunts. 2. a. intransitive. To remain in a listless, apathetic condition, without making any effort to rouse oneself; to abandon oneself to ennui; to be dull, dejected, and spiritless. Frequently with about, around. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be or become dejected [verb (intransitive)] heavyOE fallOE droopena1225 lourc1290 droopc1330 to abate one's countenance (also cheer)a1350 dullc1374 fainta1375 languora1375 languisha1382 afflicta1393 gloppen?a1400 weary1434 appalc1450 to have one's heart in one's boots (also shoes, heels, hose, etc.)c1450 peak1580 dumpc1585 mopea1592 sink1603 bate1607 deject1644 despond1655 alamort?1705 sadden1718 dismal1780 munge1790 mug1828 to get one's tail down1853 to have (also get) the pip1881 shadow1888 to have (one's) ass in a sling1960 a1592 R. Greene Comicall Hist. Alphonsus (1599) iv. sig. G3 And as for Mars..He moping sits behind the kitchin doore. 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode v. ii. 95 Sitting moping like Three or Four Melancholy Birds in a spacious vollary. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 2. ⁋2 Here I sit moping all the live-long Night, Devour'd with Spleen, and Stranger to Delight. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover ii. 39 For this fortnight he has gone about sighing, and musing, and moping. 1795 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana 155 See yonder cloud, that mopes with mournful shade. 1824 J. Constable Let. 20 June (1964) II. 338 They seem to know how unhappy they are by moping about. 1833 Pearl & Lit. Gaz. 10 Nov. 55/1 I for one, will never mope when I can be merry. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. v. 112 He's out somewhere, thinking of what is going on, instead of moping in the house. ?1889 M. Wood Pidge (MS) iii. 70 Well, if I've got to mope around as though I'd been run through a cloths wringer, I don't want to be a subdued society girl. 1935 J. Steinbeck Tortilla Flat xv. 261 Danny began to mope on the front porch, so that his friends thought him ill. 1959 R. Lardner Best Short Stories IV. 65 I tell her she's silly to mope about a man that's been dead four years. 1991 Sports Ilustr. 24 June 23/3 I've been with teams where you had to mope around for 15 minutes after every loss just to show that you love the game. b. transitive. To waste or fritter away (one's life, etc.) in a state of dejection. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)] > spend or pass time in dejection pine1597 linger1725 mope1791 1791 C. Smith Celestina II. 227 Celestina has too much spirit and too much sense to mope away her youth and beauty. a1792 Bp. G. Horne Disc. (1795) IV. xii. 279 His religion..directs him not to shut himself up in a cloister alone, there to mope and moan away his life. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxvi. 290 Twenty more will mope away their lives without a wish or attempt to make a mark in the world, because they have no ambition apart from their attachment to you. 1990 P. Pulsford Lee's Ghost 31 Perhaps, she thought, I'm Penelope moping away my life in the underworld. 3. transitive. To make gloomily dejected or melancholy; to cause to mope. Also reflexive and in passive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)] drearya1300 discomfortc1325 batec1380 to cast downa1382 to throw downa1382 dullc1386 faintc1386 discomfita1425 discourage1436 sinkc1440 mischeera1450 discheerc1454 amatea1500 bedowa1522 damp1548 quail1548 dash1550 exanimate1552 afflict1561 dank1565 disanimate1565 sadden1565 languish1566 deject1581 dumpc1585 unheart1593 mope1596 chill1597 sour1600 disgallant1601 disheart1603 dishearten1606 fainten1620 depress1624 sullen1628 tristitiate1628 disliven1631 dampen1633 weigh1640 out-spirit1643 dispirit1647 flat1649 funeralize1654 hearta1658 disencourage1659 attrist1680 flatten1683 dismalizec1735 blue-devil1812 out-heart1845 downweigh1851 to get down1861 frigidize1868 languor1891 downcast1914 neg1987 the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > be dejected [verb (reflexive)] mope1799 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxii. 299 Not moop't at home, but mapping Lands. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. iv. 198 Many men are vndone by this means, moped, and so deiected, that they are neuer to be recovered. 1681 J. Scott Christian Life: Pt. I iv. 365 It is doubtless a great Disgrace to our Religion to imagin..that it is an Enemy to Mirth and Chearfulness,..that men are never serious enough till they are mope'd into Statues. 1730 J. Clarke Ess. Educ. Youth (ed. 2) 140 Boys of mild..Tempers, must be dispirited, and moaped..by it. 1799 J. West Tale of Times II. 94 The viscountess..urged her not to mope herself at home. 1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw xxxvi My father is moped to death for want of you both. 1881 M. E. Herbert Edith 16 Gordon could not compel her to remain at home and ‘mope herself to death’ as she expressed it. 1903 Longman's Mag. Apr. 494 Any one can see you are moped to death. †4. transitive. To confine or shut up in a place. Chiefly with up. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)] beloukOE loukOE sparc1175 pena1200 bepen?c1225 pind?c1225 prison?c1225 spearc1300 stopc1315 restraina1325 aclosec1350 forbara1375 reclosea1382 ward1390 enclose1393 locka1400 reclusea1400 pinc1400 sparc1430 hamperc1440 umbecastc1440 murea1450 penda1450 mew?c1450 to shut inc1460 encharter1484 to shut up1490 bara1500 hedge1549 hema1552 impound1562 strain1566 chamber1568 to lock up1568 coop1570 incarcerate1575 cage1577 mew1581 kennel1582 coop1583 encagea1586 pound1589 imprisonc1595 encloister1596 button1598 immure1598 seclude1598 uplock1600 stow1602 confine1603 jail1604 hearse1608 bail1609 hasp1620 cub1621 secure1621 incarcera1653 fasten1658 to keep up1673 nun1753 mope1765 quarantine1804 peg1824 penfold1851 encoop1867 oubliette1884 jigger1887 corral1890 maroon1904 to bang up1950 to lock down1971 1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto i. 48 I do not wish to see you moped in a convent, as you would be if you had your will. 1781 T. Holcroft Duplicity ii. i. 22 My gracious!——What zignifications my coming to London zity, an' I must be moped up a this'n; I will go, zo I will. 1829 B. Webster High Ways & By Ways i. i. 9 'Tis not well, I think, miss, to be moped up here, where nobody ever knocks at the door. 1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. ii. i. 73 They [sc. the doctors]..drenched the lad with mercury and moped him up in a dark room. 1863 A. D. T. Whitney Faith Gartney's Girlhood xvi. 140 The child shouldn't be moped up here, all winter! 1892 S. Baring-Gould In Roar of Sea III. xlii. 84 She was moped up in her room. She was imprisoned in this house, and she was wasting, dying in confinement. 5. intransitive. U.S. Criminals' slang. To go away, to escape. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away quietly or stealthily steal1154 to steal one's wayc1385 skew?a1400 astealc1400 fleetc1400 slip?c1450 shrink1530 flinch1563 shift1594 foist1603 shab1699 slope1851 smuggle1865 sneak1896 mope1914 to oil out1945 1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 60 Mope, general currency, to walk away; to remove one's presence to another locality or spot. 1933 Amer. Speech Oct. 29/2 All I want's the least little show of a chanct, 'n' I'll mope. 1961 A. J. Roth Shame of Our Wounds 13 He's moped out of here seven or eight times. 1975 J. McKennon Horse Dung Trail 200 Several men have already ‘moped’ as you know. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1390v.1568
随便看	to turn to to turn to account to turn to bag and wallet to turn to bay to turn to good to turn to grass to turn to matches to turn to or into flight to turn to ridicule to turn to shit to turn to the worst to turn to water to turn toeside to turn topple-tail to turn toppletail to turn turk to turn turn off the water to turn turtle to turn up to turn up a person's heels to turn up missing to turn up one's heels to turn up one's nose to turn up one's nose at to turn up rough