▪ I. † mops1 Obs.
Also 7 mopse.
[Prob. an extension of mop n.1; cf. moppet1, mopsy.]
A term of endearment for a young girl.
| 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. iii. (1567) 32 b, Little bibling Phyale, and Pseke that pretie Mops. 1584 Peele Arraignm. Paris iv. i, I' faith, i' faith, my gentle mops, but I do know a cast. 1588 T. Thomas Dict. (1615), Puellula,..a little pretie girle: a little mopse. 1592 Lyly Midas i. ii, We are no chase (prettie mops,) for Deere we are not, neither red nor fallow. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. ii. 37 Which Sancho stole from his ill favoured Mopse. |
▪ II. mops2 rare—0.
(mɒps)
[a. G. mops = Du. mops, mop.]
A pug-dog.
| 1890 in Century Dict. |