Opes vs Mopes - What's the difference?
opes | mopes |
(ope)
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.6:
*:Arriving there, as did by chaunce befall, / He found the gate wyde ope […].
* 1819 , (John Keats), Otho the Great , Act V, Scene V, verses 191-192:
* Herbert
(archaic) To open.
* 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
(mope)
To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout
To make spiritless and stupid.
A dull, spiritless person.
(pornography industry) A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
* 2011 : LA Weekly , documenting uses dating to the 1990s
As verbs the difference between opes and mopes
is that opes is third-person singular of ope while mopes is third-person singular of mope.opes
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(head)Anagrams
* * * ----ope
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Adjective
(en adjective)- We are all weary — faint — set ope the doors —
- I will to bed! — To-morrow —
- On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope .
Verb
(op)- The hour's now come, the very minute bids thee ope thine ear; obey and be attentive.
Anagrams
* ----mopes
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*mope
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(mop)Derived terms
* moper * moperyNoun
(en noun)- (Burton)
- The porn industry is many things. Subtle is not one of them. So when Porn Inc. went searching for a job title for people like Stephen Hill, the choice was "mope ." It's based on the off-camera life of these fringe actors, hangers-on who mope around the studios hoping for a bit role, which if they're lucky might bring them $50 plus food — and the chance to have sex with a real, live woman. [http://www.laweekly.com/2011-02-24/news/porn-machete-murder/]
