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mopsey

mopsey is the alternative form of mopsy.

Meaning of mopsy

Noun

mopsy (plural mopsies)

  1. Synonym of moppet.
    Synonyms:
    moppet
  2. (obsolete) A slatternly, untidy woman.
    • rich hande-kercheefes, in their handes, and sometymes laied acrosse over their shoulders and neckes, borrowed for the moste parte of their pretie Mopsies and loovyng Bessies for bussyng them in the darcke1583, P. Stubbes, The Puritan's Anatomie of Abuses

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Forms of mopsey

pluralmopseys

Questions about mopsey

What is mopsey the alternative form of?
Mopsey is the alternative form of mopsy.

Words near mopsey in the dictionary

  1. mops down
  2. mops the floor with someone
  3. mops up
  4. mops up the ice
  5. mopses
  6. mopsey
  7. mopseys
  8. mopsical
  9. mopsies
  10. mopstick
  11. mopsticks

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