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MOPPET

Definition: MOPPET

MOPPET

Noun

1. A long-haired pet dog.

2. A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MOPPET" was first used: 1601. (references)


Synonyms within Context: MOPPET

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Favorite

Love, dear, darling, duck, duckey, honey, sugar, jewel; mopsey, moppet, princess; sweetheart, sweetie; (love).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MOPPET

English words defined with "MOPPET": Mopsy. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MOPPET

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MOPPET

"MOPPET" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MOPPET" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MOPPET

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

moppet

5

moppet nudism pre sex

2

merry moppet

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MOPPET

Language Translations for "MOPPET"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kalama (chick, child, chit, kid, kiddy, nipper, olive-branches, piccaninny, pickaninny, tike, tot, tyke), foshnjë (babe, baby, chit, infant), fëmijë (bairn, child, chit, infant, kid, little one, progeny, tad, youngster). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

детенце (kiddy, tomtit). (various references)

   

German

  

Püppchen (moppets). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κούκλα (doll, dummy, marionette, puppet), παιδί (bairn, boy, boyo, child, children, cove, guy, kid, lad, youngster, younker). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תי וק (babe, baby, child, infant, nursling, suckling, tot), בוב" (doll, dummy, figurehead, poppet, puppet, stooge). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fintor (droll, grimace, mop, pout). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oppetmay

   

Portuguese

  

fedelho (bantling, brat, chit, snipe), boneca de pano. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ребенок (baby, bairn, brat, child, infant, kid, kiddy, papoose, tad, toddler, weanling), малютка (baby, little one). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

krpena lutka, devojčica (girl). (various references)

   

Thai

  

หนูน้อย (คำไม่เป็นทางการ). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çocuk (baby, bairn, brat, child, chit, infant, infantile, junior, juvenile, kid, mite, nipper, paed-, seed, son, youngster). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: MOPPET

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Middle English1100-1500

moppe. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: MOPPET

Derivations

Words beginning with "MOPPET": moppets. (additional references)


Misspellings

"MOPPET" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jopplety, Meppem, moppen, Mopple, Morperth, Mosport, Mpheta, muppet, oppit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "MOPPET"

Words rhyming with "MOPPET" (pronounced 'Mop"pet'): limpet, Pompet, Pumpet, Puppet, Scoppet, Serpet, Sippet, Skippet, snippet, Strippet, tappet, tippet, Wappet. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MOPPET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-m-o-p-p-t"

-1 letter: tempo.

-2 letters: mope, mote, pepo, poem, poet, pome, pomp, pope, temp, tome, tope.

-3 letters: met, mop, mot, ope, opt, pep, pet, pom, pop, pot, toe, tom, top.

-4 letters: em, et, me, mo, oe, om, op, pe, to.

 Words containing the letters "e-m-o-p-p-t"
 

+1 letter: moppets, uptempo.

 

+2 letters: prompted, prompter, uptempos.

 

+3 letters: preemptor, prompters, promptest, uppermost.

 

+4 letters: apophthegm, micropipet, misstopped, nympholept, peremptory, precompute, preemption, preemptors, preemptory, promptness, unprompted.

 

+5 letters: apophthegms, appointment, approximate, coppersmith, impropriety, micropipets, mucopeptide, nympholepts, photomapped, pomposities, precomputed, precomputer, precomputes, preemptions, presumption, promptitude, protophloem, tamperproof.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MOPPET


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 4F 50 50 45 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    .--.    .--.    .    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01010000 01010000 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#80 &#80 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0050 0050 0045 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

474950503954

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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