mope
Plural: mopes
Noun
- someone who wastes time
- The act of moping
- A dull, spiritless person.
- A bottom feeder who "mopes" around a pornography studio hoping for his big break and often does bit parts in exchange for room and board and meager pay.
Verb
Verb Forms: moped, moping, mopes
- To be in a state of dejection or gloom.
- move around slowly and aimlessly
- be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed
- To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk.
- To make spiritless and stupid.
Examples
- Don’t mope over that missed bingo; there’s still plenty of game left!
- When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.
Origin / Etymology
Late Middle English (as a noun meaning "simpleton, fool"), probably related to mop (“young of an animal, moppet”).
Alternatively, of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish mopa (“to sulk”), Danish måbe, themselves borrowed from Low German mopen (“to make faces, gape”), of uncertain ultimate origin, but compare Proto-West Germanic *mauwu (“protruding lip, pout”). Compare also German muffen, French moue.
Synonyms
dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, moon about, moon around, mope around, mopus
Scrabble Score: 8
mope: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmope: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mope: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary