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MOPUS

Definition: MOPUS

MOPUS

Noun

1. A mope; a drone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MOPUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Note: Mopus \Mo"pus\, noun. mope; drone. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: MOPUS

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Rhyming with "MOPUS"

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)

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Anagrams: MOPUS

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.

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Alternative Orthography: MOPUS


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

4D 4F 50 55 53

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 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#80 &#85 &#83

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)

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

4749505553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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