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Moppy vs Mopey - What's the difference?

moppy | mopey |

As adjectives the difference between moppy and mopey

is that moppy is (of hair) disordered, tousled while mopey is given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.

moppy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (of hair) disordered, tousled
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 2, author=Virginia Heffernan, title=Hop on, Pop, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“When I’m downloading an Internet, to do an e-mail, for sending, how do I make it go to your stepmother?” the dad asks his son, a Mac-user with moppy , Robby Benson hair. }}

    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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