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Word entry · 4 letters

mope

Best crossword clue

"Act gloomy"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /məʊp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted emopStarts with MEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • When she gets upset, she has a little mope, and then gets over it.
  • putting gulleries on some or other till they have made by their humouring or gulling ex stulto insanum, a mope or a noddy

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