mop

• vt.乾かす；モップをかける；こする
• モップで床をこする；変顔をする
• n.モップ；ふわふわの髪；にやけた顔

ラテン語のnappa（ぼろ布）が語源で、map（地図）、napkin（ナプキン）、apron（エプロン）と語源は同じ。

mop

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.

1. He was long-limbed and dark-eyed,with a mop of tight,dark curls.

彼は手足が長く、目が黒く光っていて、ぼさぼさで濃密な黒い巻き髪を残している。

2.a mop and bucket

モップとバケツ

3.The hotel cleaner entered carrying a bucket and a mop .

ホテルの清掃員がバケツとモップを持って入ってきた.

4.The houseboy comes to mop our kitchen floor twice a week.

男の召使いは週に2回、私の家に台所の床を洗いに来ました。

5.The old man wiped the floor with a mop .

その老人はモップで床を拭きました。