mop: [15] Mop first appeared in the guise mappe, a late 15th-century sailors’ term for an improvised brush used for caulking ships’ seams with tar. The modern form mop, presumably the same word, did not emerge until the mid-17thcentury. It may be a truncation of an earlier mapple ‘mop’ [15], which came from late Latin mappula ‘towel, cloth’, a diminutive form of Latin mappa ‘cloth’ (source of English map). => map
mop (n.)
late 15c., mappe "bundle of yarn, etc., fastened to the end of a stick for cleaning or spreading pitch on a ship's decks," from Walloon (French) mappe "napkin," from Latin mappa "napkin" (see map (n.)). Modern spelling by 1660s. Of hair, from 1847. Grose ["Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," Grose, 1788] has mopsqueezer "A maid servant, particularly a housemaid."
mop (v.)
1709, from mop (n.). Related: Mopped; mopping.
双语例句
1. He was long-limbed and dark-eyed, with a mop of tight, dark curls.
他四肢修长、眼睛乌黑发亮，留着一头蓬乱浓密的黑色卷发。
来自柯林斯例句
2. a mop and bucket
拖把和水桶
来自《权威词典》
3. The hotel cleaner entered carrying a bucket and a mop.
旅馆清洁工拿着水桶和拖把进来.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. The houseboy comes to mop our kitchen floor twice a week.
