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Moped vs Moping - What's the difference?

moped | moping |

As verbs the difference between moped and moping

is that moped is past tense of mope while moping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between moped and moping

is that moped is a lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit while moping is the act of one who mopes.

As an adjective moped

is melancholy, dejected.

moped

English

Etymology 1

From .

Verb

(head)
  • (mope)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Melancholy, dejected.
  • * , I.iii.1.2:
    • it so far troubles them, that they become quite moped many times, and so disheartened, dejected, they dare not come abroad […].

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) moped.

    Alternative forms

    * mo-ped

    Noun

    (wikipedia moped) (en noun)
  • A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.
    • See also
    * (l) English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

  • a (l)
    • ----

    moping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who mopes.
  • * 1966 , Carl Gustav Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (page 51)
    • He fell from one state of anxiety to the next and worried himself almost to death with hypochondriacal mopings .