Mopiest vs Mopies - What's the difference?

mopiest | mopies |

As an adjective mopiest

is (mopey).

As a verb mopies is

(mopy).

mopiest

English

Adjective

(head)

(mopey)

Anagrams

* *

mopey

English

Alternative forms

* mopy

Adjective

(er)

Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.

* 1888 , , Beechcroft at Rockstone , ch. 14:

[T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did.

* 1917 , , Anne's House of Dreams , ch. 11:

He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.

* 2003 , Michael Kinsley, " 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 .

Anagrams

mopies

English

Verb

(head)

(mopy)

Anagrams

mopy

English

Etymology 1

From

Adjective

(er)

Etymology 2

, acronym of "multiple original prints".

Verb

To print more than one copy of a document using a computer printer rather than printing one original and copying it with a separate machine.

* {{quote-news, year=1996, date=November 11, author=Noor Amal, title=Why copy when you can mopy, work=New Straits Times, page=18 citation

passage=Mopy' is a term HP [Hewlett-Packard] has coined to talk about a new paradigm to address the current printing/coping(SIC) trend. ' Mopying is a term describing the process of creating multiple original prints, or "mopies" on a laser printer.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=November 17, author=Robert Uhlig, title=Boom in email puts paper use up by 40pc, work=Telegraph, page= citation

passage=

* {{quote-news, year=2003, date=September 17, author=Juhi Bhambal, title=Printing Solutions, work=PCQuest citation

passage=Some offer a function called mopying . Instead of printing one original and then making copies on a copying machine, you get several originals of the document (or high-quality copies).}}