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Definition: MOPUS |
MOPUSNoun1. A mope; a drone. |
Date "MOPUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references) |
Note: Mopus \Mo"pus\, noun. mope; drone. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis; croaker, pessimist; mope, mopus. |
Imagination | Idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus; romancer, dreamer; somnambulist; rhapsodist; (fanatic); castle-buildier, fanciful projector. |
Inactivity | Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus. |
Money | Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Words rhyming with "MOPUS" (pronounced 'Mo"pus'): Apus, Campus, Canopus, Carpus, Cippus, Corpus, grampus, hippocampus, lupus, mesohippus, metacarpus, Miohippus, Opus, Orohippus, Palpus, Pappus, Pedipalpus, Pithecanthropus, Pliohippus, Porpus, Protohippus, rumpus, Scapus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: mops, opus, poms, soup, sumo, sump, umps. | |
-2 letters: mop, mos, mus, oms, ops, pom, pus, som, sop, sou, sum, sup, ump, upo, ups. | |
-3 letters: mo, mu, om, op, os, so, um, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: opiums, possum, upmost. | |
+2 letters: impious, mockups, opossum, plumose, podiums, pompous, possums, pumelos, spumone, spumoni, spumous, supremo, utopism. | |
+3 letters: ampoules, computes, gumdrops, homespun, imporous, impounds, jumpoffs, opiumism, opossums, optimums, outjumps, pantoums, plumbous, pomatums, populism, protiums, pummelos, spermous, spumones, spumonis, supermom, supremos, uptempos, utopisms. | |
+4 letters: amorphous, amphioxus, apogamous, bumptious, composure, compounds, computers, dummkopfs, emporiums, eponymous, europiums, gumptions, homespuns, hospitium, imperious, impetuous, impiously, impostume, imposture, impulsion, menopause, mesopause, mousetrap, noncampus, opiumisms, opusculum, outtrumps, overpumps, paramours, peponiums, plumbagos, poloniums, pomaceous, pompously, populisms, potassium, promulges, pseudonym, pulmotors, pumiceous, puppydoms, responsum, semigroup, spodumene, sumptuous, superbomb, supermoms, sympodium, symposium, uppermost. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 50 55 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .--. ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01010000 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O P U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0050 0055 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4749505553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Rhymes 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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