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Mopper vs Mopier - What's the difference?

mopper | mopier |

As a noun mopper

is one who mops.

As an adjective mopier is

comparative of mopey.

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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    mopier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (mopey)

    • 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 .

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