Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A mope; a drone.
  • noun Money: usually in the plural.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A mope; a drone.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A mope; a drone.

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Examples

  • And others are plac'd at the helm of affairs, Relieving the weight of his majesty's cares; For many long weeks, it has still been my doom To sit like a mopus, confin'd to my loom,* Whose damnable clatter so addles my brain, That, say what they will, I am forc'd to complain.

    The Poems of Philip Freneau 2023

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