Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A young child.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A puppet made of cloth; a rag-baby.
  • noun A young girl. Also mopsy, mopsey.
  • noun A lap-dog.
  • noun A grimace.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
  • noun (Zoöl.) A long-haired pet dog.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun colloquial A child.
  • noun dated A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth.
  • noun dated A long-haired pet dog.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a little girl (usually one you are fond of)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From obsolete mop, fool, child, from Middle English moppe.]

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mop +‎ -et

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  • 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

    October 10, 2008