# mop

> English word · Noun · IPA /mɒp/ · frequency rank #17,422

## Definitions
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. An annual fair where servants were historically hired.
5. A tassel worn in a buttonhole to indicate ones occupation in such a fair.
6. A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
7. Fellatio.
8. A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.
9. A row of ropes dragged along the seabed for catching starfish.
10. A drunkard.

## Etymology
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, nape, and nappe.

## Easily confused with
- **my** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-my)
- **Mr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mr)
- **MS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-ms)
- **MP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mp)
- **MT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mt)
- **mu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mu)
- **MW** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mw)
- **MV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mv)
- **Mx** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mx)
- **Mrs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mrs)
- **mum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mum)
- **MPS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mps)
- **MUD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mud)
- **mph** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mph)
- **MVP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mvp)
- **MTV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mtv)
- **mug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mug)
- **MP3** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mp3)
- **MRI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mri)
- **MoS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mop-vs-mos)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mop