Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A young girl: same as moppet, 2.
  • noun An untidy woman.

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Examples

  • And Beatrix Potter, would she have come whizzing down, her skirts flying flopsy mopsy in the wind?

    TV review: Spooks; Tales From the National Park; and Downton Abbey 2011

  • Two of them were dead when he brought them up, but the other four were fine. we named them flopsy, mopsy, dingbat and transister for some weird reason, my son was quite young and kept them for several weeks til we found someone to adopt them all.

    Who’s Eating In The Garden? « Fairegarden 2008

  • And then made the mistake of telling them afterwards in broken english that she had just served them flopsy and mopsy stew, which they had so greedily consumed and then promptly burst into horrified sobs when they realized what they had just devoured.

    wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007

  • But see his little mopsy dog outside often, which he always steps out to watch when it's tending business.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003

  • My Cocktête, my pookie, my poopsie-butt, my darling mopsy-head.

    Adland 2009

  • My Cocktête, my pookie, my poopsie-butt, my darling mopsy-head.

    Adland 2009

  • He’s wearing long board shorts and a long-sleeved blue T-shirt and his brown hair is all mopsy and cute and his eyes look the same as when he looked at me during The Scandalous Skateboard Incident.

    Rules for Secret Keeping Lauren Barnholdt 2010

  • So you’re saying that Libby’s defense is flopsy punaise and that the little mopsy is going to spend a few years sitting on his cottontail in Mr. McGregor’s big enclosure for bad bunnies?

    Firedoglake » Part I of Well, That Has to… 2006

  • April 15th, 2006 at 10:37 pm angie you’re welcome – dana @111 will that be a flopsy or a mopsy cottontail for bunnaise.

    Firedoglake » And You Call Us Unreliable? 2006

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