moppet

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Annie, in which the big-voiced, Tony Award-nominated McArdle played the title moppet.

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  1. noun A young child.

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  • In the book, the spoiled moppet spends her days haranguing her nanny and the hotel employees, riding elevators to nowhere, eavesdropping on the ladies who lunch and barging her way into cocktail parties. —  Cry It Out: Memoirs of a stay-at-home dad
  • Out of frame, little moppet Anakin has just opened up a Box O 'Ewoks. —  Cute Overload
  • Adrift in the surreal metropolis, Rudi meets and is befriended by a mystical moppet named Yu (Aya Iruzuki), who teaches him how butoh dancing is a shadow play of life and loss. —  California Chronicle
  • I understand child actors have a right to make a living as adults, even take on the kind of edgy roles that will put distance between themselves and the adorable moppet characters that defined them when they were kids. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Tomcats and Sweet Home Alabama, in which Fanning had cameos, and her seven-film total is still an impressive scary-eyed moppet takes her box office drawing power in stride, telling Valby: '' I don't think that's really for me to worry about, but it's exciting when people tell you that they really like a movie, because that's what we strive for. '' —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. From obsolete mop, fool, child, from Middle English moppe.

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  1. Dim. of mop, prob. after moppet.
  2. Dim. of mop.
 

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/ˈmɑpɛt/
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