mopin

What's the use o 'mopin' like dis when youse got a invite out ter

The Tangled Threads 1894

I've bin thinkin 'for a long time past that it's of no manner of use your comin' up here day after day an 'mopin' away about what can't be mended, an 'goin' into the blues.

The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers 1859

Mrs. Barker did communicate to Christopher her belief that that child was 'mopin' herself into ninety years old; 'and they were both agreed that she ought to be sent to school.

A Red Wallflower Susan Warner 1852

I don't want to hev you go mopin an whinin about this way.

Lost in the Fog James De Mille

"Well, that's better than mopin 'about doing nothing," was the not over-particular rejoinder.

The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story John Roussel

Anybody'd be sorry for her, to see her mopin '' round the house, nothin 'to do.

Mary Marie 1920

Pictures or not, it's all the same mopin 'and lazin' in it.

The Straw Eugene O'Neill 1920

"Abel, if you don't stop mopin 'out thar an' come along in, I'll clear off the dishes!" called his mother again in her rasping voice which sounded as if she were choking in a perpetual spasm of moral indignation.

The Miller of Old Church 1911

"Abel, if you don't stop mopin 'out thar an' come along in, I'll clear off the dishes!" called his mother again in her rasping voice which sounded as if she were choking in a perpetual spasm of moral indignation.

The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

"Stray-men is usual low-down, mean, ornery cusses which ain't much good for anything else, an 'so they spend their time mopin' around, doin 'work that ain't fit for any puncher to do."

The Two-Gun Man Charles Alden Seltzer 1908