mop

Signification (Anglais)

1. An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
2. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
3. A dense head of hair.
4. (obsolete) A fair where servants are hired.
5. (slang) A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
6. (slang) Fellatio.
7. A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
8. An row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
9. (slang) A drunkard.

serpillière

tignasse

balai à franges

balai à laver

balai laveur

fauber

sponge up

shock of hair

swab down

slag bridge

buffing roll

dusting roll

esponjar

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/mɒp/

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מַפָּה (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מַנְפָּה (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). Doublet of map.