单词 | mopery |
释义 | moperyn. 1. U.S. The action of committing a minor or petty offence, such as loitering, etc.; contravention of a trivial or hypothetical law, esp. when used as an excuse to harass or arrest a person against whom no more serious crime can be charged. 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 1907 McClure's Mag. 28 380/1 Come along, children, before the boogie man sloughs you in the skookum for mopery! 1934 D. Hammett Thin Man x. 59 Have me arrested for kidnapping, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and mopery. 1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) viii. 74 He was formally charged with..‘indiscriminate behaviour, mopery, high treason, provoking, being a smart guy, listening to classical music, and so on’. 1984 Nation 13 Oct. 345/1 We got a three-strikes law here..so we got guys doing terminal stretches for passing two bad checks and aggravated mopery. 1994 New Yorker 21 Feb. 82/3 Gotti apparently sanctioned guilty pleas only for what he called ‘malicious mopery’—minor offenses that had nothing to do with the existence of La Cosa Nostra. 2. The behaviour of a moper; a fit of moping. ΚΠ 1925 W. de la Mare Broomsticks 369 Tom's little moperies came very near at times to being a little mad. 1976 New Musical Express 12 Feb. 24/2 All that mopery and Ooooh, it's so hard and lonely at the top. 1986 Time (Electronic ed.) 3 Mar. 83 His precise, unexploitative direction is sympathetic to the awkward pauses in teen talk, to the mopery of first love, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1907 |
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