Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A young child.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A grimace.
- n. A puppet made of cloth; a rag-baby.
- n. A young girl. Also mopsy, mopsey.
- n. A lap-dog.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
- n. (Zoöl.) A long-haired pet dog.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a little girl (usually one you are fond of)
Etymologies
- mop + -et (Wiktionary)
- From obsolete mop, fool, child, from Middle English moppe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The moppet is a quick study, though he needs to be counseled not to smile adorably while making his subjects tremble in fear of his wrath.”
“In her, America cherished the baby, the moppet, and cherub-faced doll.”
“Plus the new companion, a 20-year old seeming moppet named Karen Gillan, was constantly in shorts and micro-minis.”
The Huffington Post: William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who
“At this time, the Rejectionist wishes to magnanimously confer Official Fiancé/e Status upon this delightful young moppet, who on occasion makes us reconsider being such a hateful old crank, EVEN THOUGH SHE CENSORED US.”
““Hold on now, moppet,” he cried as he struggled to restrain her.”
“Not since The Phantom Menace has a movie been so sabotaged by an annoying, screen-hogging moppet.”
“Maybe they have to be that way -- like a doctor has to distance herself from the fact that her patient -- the 6-year-old moppet sitting across from her -- has inoperable brain cancer.”
The Huffington Post: Trish Vradenburg: Acting On Alzheimer's Awareness
“Which promptly became an object of mockery for moppet and adult alike.”
“Despite my best efforts to capture every moment of her childhood, she has so quickly gone from a tiny curly-haired moppet to a lovely, graceful young adult heading off and away.”
The Huffington Post: Tamar Abrams: A Graduation (or One Mom's Inability to Slow Down Time)
“And I for one would pay good money to see an adorable moppet with green pigtails sing a song about how air conditioners cause global warming.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moppet’.
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skrIKEA
I'm nöt a fan of IKEA the cömpäny or störe, but måny of their prödüct names make me giggle.
I started this off with reål prödüct names, but feel free to make them üp.grimstad, aneboda, ektorp, grankulla, lykesele, lenda, anno amorf, strib, slätthult, gunghult, flört, snille and 130 more...
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ikahime's Words
callipygian, squidocracy, epicene, alkahest, syzygy, pysmatic, ideopraxist, quandary, vulpine, fandango, ataraxia, exsanguinate and 92 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Femmesque
Curious words having to do with women: positive or negative; feminine, observational, technical, weird, stupid, crass, etc. I loathe some of these words but I'm using this list as a catch-all... ev...
mittelschmerz, gynotikolobomasso..., ingenue, uxorious, hogminny, quim, suffragette, damsel, madame, parturient, testatrix, mediatrix and 188 more...
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Interesting/mellifluous/delicious
insouciant, expiate, apotheosis, insidious, teacup, homunculus, porcine, perestroika, milquetoast, unputdownable, paroxysm, agitprop and 65 more...
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Puppet (Words) On a String
puppet, hand puppet, glove doll, glove puppet, marionette, popet, puppetman, puppet-player, puppetry, puppet-show, puppet-play, puppetish and 40 more...
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the feminine mystique
I love being a woman.
pink-collar, vagina dentata, écriture féminine, primigravida, cunt, yoni, lingam, fangast, chattel, moppet, lolita, philogynist and 52 more...
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freerice words to learn
because the website is just that awesome.
allocution, embolism, napery, hemidemisemiquaver, bestir, moppet, ampoule, pullet, praenomen, philately, hauberk, ratiocination and 40 more...
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The Kid
elf, imp, rascal, puckish, pixie, scamp, gremlin, leprechaun, gamine, hellion, jackanapes, rapscallion and 3 more...
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nsanch's words
whirr, englightenment, vocabularious, sophistry, scriven, magniloquent, muppet, kickingest-ass, leverage, autoclave, hooligan, moppet and 5 more...
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stages of life
newborn, bundle of joy, neonate, babe, nursling - A newborn infant, especially one less than four weeks old
cherub, baby, little one, infant, tot, yearling, babe in arms, papoose - a very you...newborn, bundle of joy, neonate, babe, nursling, cherub, baby, little one, infant, toddler, tween, adolescent and 21 more...
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bombchicken's list
list of words I use, like, et cetera.
reneger, abacinate, defenestrate, egregious, adam's ale, cuba libre, pulchritudinous, masticate, hoi polloi, ort, pedagogy, abscond and 82 more...
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While Europe Slept/America Alone/Amer...
Words gathered during my recent "current affairs" reading bender.
It's not an addiction, I can quit any time I want.proforma, distaff, senescent, simplisme, arrondissement, brasserie, cynosure, entente, inure, elision, contrariety, calumny and 53 more...
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femmes
the bechdel rule, moppet, moppet, uxorial, littératrice, demimondaine, spanogyny, spaneria, damozel, monarsenous, soubrette, soubrette and 15 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for moppet.
yarb I will lay a wage; said I, laughing outright, that this moppet of threescore and ten, this girl in her second childhood, has been unfolding to you all the secret movements of a tender, susceptible heart.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 12 Oct 9, 2008