Mopey vs Mosey - What's the difference?
mopey | mosey |
Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.
* 1888 , , Beechcroft at Rockstone , ch. 14:
* 1917 , , Anne's House of Dreams , ch. 11:
* 2003 , Michael Kinsley, "
(chiefly, US, dialectal) To set off, get going; to start a journey.
*1910 , , Kilmeny of the Orchard , chapter 1:
*:Haven't got time. I must mosey up to the North End to see a man who has got a lovely throat. Nobody can find out what is the matter. He has puzzled all the doctors.
(chiefly, US, dialectal) To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.
*1919 , , A Man Four-Square , chapter 6:
*:We'll mosey along toward the river. Kinder take it easy an' drift the herd down slow so as to let the cattle put on flesh.
As an adjective mopey
is given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.As a verb mosey is
(chiefly|us|dialectal) to set off, get going; to start a journey.mopey
English
Alternative forms
* mopyAdjective
(er)- [T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did.
- He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.
Why Bush Angers Liberals," Time , 13 Oct.:
- In the 1980s, liberals nursed the fear that we really might be dwelling in an irrelevant cul-de-sac outside of the majority American culture. That kept us sullen and mopey .