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Webster 1913 Edition


Mope

Mope

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Moped
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Moping
.]
[Cf. D.
moppen
to pout, Prov. G.
muffen
to sulk.]
To be dull and spiritless; to spend time doing little;
as, to
mope
around the house
.
“Moping melancholy.”
Milton.
A sickly part of one true sense
Could not so
mope
.
Shakespeare

Mope

,
Verb.
T.
To make spiritless and stupid.
[Obs.]

Mope

,
Noun.
A dull, spiritless person.
Burton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mope

MOPE

,
Verb.
I.
[I have not found this word, unless in the D. moppen, to pout.]
To be very stupid; to be very dull; to drowse; to be spiritless or gloomy.
Demoniac phrensy, moping melancholy.
--Or but a sickly part of one true sense
Could not so mope.

MOPE

,
Verb.
T.
To make stupid or spiritless.

MOPE

,
Noun.
A stupid or low spirited person; a drone.