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单词 to mop and mow
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to mop and mow
intransitive. To make a grimace, to make faces. Chiefly in to mop and mow (cf. to mock and mow at mock v. 3c).
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > face with expression [verb (intransitive)] > distort
fleer?a1400
mowc1450
snowrec1450
to make (also pull) a facec1522
to throw one's facea1525
pot1549
mop1567
murgeonc1586
to cut facesa1616
wrimple1657
work1753
grimace1762
mowl1837
wrinkle1843
mug1856
girn1900
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiv. f. 174v Too moppe and mowe, but not too speake.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xxiii. 138 Whensoeuer a Crucifix stands mopping & mowing [Fr. quand vn crucifix fera la mouë] in the Church [etc.].
1606 B. Rich Faultes 7 Marke but his countenance, see how hee mops, and how he mowes.
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iv. 17 Fremond, drawing her mouth an inch and a half wider than ordinary, and mopping at him [etc.].
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables x. 9 An Asse was so Hardy once, as to fall a Mopping and Braying at a Lyon.
1823 Ld. Byron Island iv. vii. 66 Fantastic faces moped and mowed on high.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 602 He mops and mows, and shakes his palsied head.
1931 M. Summers Supernatural Omnibus 10 Pale spectres who peer in through the windows, who mop and mow at the lattice.
1969 W. H. Auden City without Walls 91 Mopped and mowed at, as their train worms through a tunnel.
1994 A. S. Byatt in Daily Tel. 15 Jan. 11/2 Puppets and shadow-puppets mop and mow.
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