Mop vs Mopper - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between mop and mopper

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 mopper is one who mops.

As a verb mop

is to rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.

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

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mopper
English

Noun
(en noun)
One who mops

* 2004 , Janet Kieffer, Food Chain: Short Stories , Lost Horse Press, ISBN 0971726558, page 58,

the kitchen mopper was a short female Asian averting her gaze.

* 1839 , John Briggs, The history of Jim Crow , Smallfield and Son, page 266,

A couple of moppers were then sent into the coffee-room with their proper implements, and quickly removed the soiling the floor had sustained.
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