Mop vs Lop - What's the difference?

mop | lop |

As nouns the difference between mop and lop

is that mop is an implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle while lop is a flea.

As verbs the difference between mop and lop

is that mop is to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop while lop is to cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

mop

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia mop)

An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

(humorous) A dense head of hair.

He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.

(British, dialect) A fair where servants are hired.

(British, dialect) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.

(Halliwell)

A made-up face; a grimace.

* (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) and

What mops and mowes it makes! --

* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1

Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,'

And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,'

Each one, tripping on his toe,

Will be here with mop and mow.

Derived terms

* mophead * mop squeezer * mop water

Descendants

* German: (l)

Verb

(mopp)
To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.

to mop (or scrub) a floor

to mop one's face with a handkerchief

To make a wry expression with the mouth.

(Shakespeare)

Anagrams

* * * ----

lop
English

Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
(en noun)
(Geordie) A flea.

(Cleveland)

Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops

References
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) loppe.
Verb
(lopp)
(usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

To allow to hang down.

to lop the head

Synonyms
* (to cut off)
Derived terms
* lopper, loppers
See also
* defalcate
Noun
(en noun)
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

(Shakespeare)

(Mortimer)

References
*
Etymology 3
from lopsided.
Noun
(en noun)
(US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.

* 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5

"He's a lop ; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."

Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

See also
* lob
Anagrams
* (l) * (l), (l) ---- ==Franco-Provençal==
Noun

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