mop

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My hair is dam thick like a mop like that and in grows dam fast, so the sides always like dam fluffy. over all it looks like a helmet mop which is dam retarded.

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  1. noun A household implement made of absorbent material attached to a typically long handle and used for washing, dusting, or drying floors.
  2. noun A loosely tangled bunch or mass: a mop of unruly hair.
  3. transitive verb To wash or wipe with or as if with a mop: mopped the hallway; mopping the spilled water; mopped her forehead with a towel.
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  • For instance, I didn't know that the Spaniards invented the mop -- but they were very proud. —  Paola Antonelli treats design as art
  • Rick Hughes has traded his golf club for a mop, and he couldn't be happier.
  • My hair is dam thick like a mop like that and in grows dam fast, so the sides always like dam fluffy. over all it looks like a helmet mop which is dam retarded. —  www.hardwarezone.com.sg
  • We're the ones paying for the mop, and frankly I don't like where they put the handle. —  RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
  • Its hair stood out from its head like the shucks in a scouring-mop, and as it came nearer, Valentine saw that it had three eyes,--one on each side of its nose, and one in its forehead Keen-Point said, 'Go straight forward,' and then Butch began to jump and thump, so Valentine placed Cob-Handle and Keen-Point in his girdle, and took Butch in his hand. —  Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country
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  1. Middle English mappe, perhaps from Old French dialectal, napkin, from Latin mappa, towel, cloth; see map.

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  1. Early modern English moppe; = Dutch moppen = German muffen (later Low German muffen), pout, grimace: see mop, n., and cf. mop, mops. Cf. mow. Also, in another form and modified sense, mope.
  2. Early modern English moppe, = late Middle High German mupf, muff, a wry face: see mop, n. Cf. mops, mopsy, moppet, moppet. The words mop, mop, moppet, moppet, etc., are more or less confused in use.
  3. from Middle English moppe, a puppet, a fool; cf. mop.
  4. Prob. a variant of map (cf. chopchap, strop strap, flop flap, crop crap, knop knap, etc.): see map. The Celtic words, Welsh mop, mopa, a mop, Gael, mob, mob (?), a tuft, tassel, mop, moibeal, Irish moipal, a mop, are apparently from English, or from the orig. L.
 

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