• vt. 擦干；用拖把拖洗
• vi. 用拖把擦洗地板；扮鬼臉
• n. 拖把；蓬松的頭發(fā)；鬼臉

來自拉丁語nappa,抹布，布料，詞源同map,napkin,apron.引申詞義拖把。

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.

他四肢修長、眼睛烏黑發(fā)亮，留著一頭蓬亂濃密的黑色卷發(fā)。

來自柯林斯例句

2. a mop and bucket

拖把和水桶

來自《權(quán)威詞典》

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

旅館清潔工拿著水桶和拖把進(jìn)來.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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

男仆每周兩次到我家來拖洗廚房地板.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

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

那老人用拖把擦拭地板.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》