mopus

English

Etymology

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Noun

mopus (countable and uncountable, plural mopuses or mopusses)

(obsolete) A lazybones; an idle person.
- 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn:
  I'm grown a mere mopus; no company comes […]
(slang, countable, uncountable) Money.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mopus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)