Reverse Dictionary: MOP – MOS

MOP – nouns
– MAB † a mop …1623
– MAPPLE † a mop …c1440
– SWAB anything used for mopping …US Civil War usage
mop – verbs 
– FANG to dam, to mop up water …1888 Eng. dial.
– FILE to wipe or mop floors or tables …1850 Amer. dial.
– HAP to dry or mop up a wet place …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
MOPE – person
– MOPUS a person who mopes
mope – verbs 
– BOODY * to sulk, mope, or be sullen; to look angry, glum, or gruff …1857
– GROUCH to sulk or grumble; to mope …1916 colloq.
– JAYBIRD IT to mope …1935 Amer. dial.
– MAWK to crave for; to become melancholy; to mope …1876 Eng. dial.
– MEASEN to be in a dreamy state; to act slothfully; to mope, to fret …1876 Eng. dial.
– MOAN AROUND to go about in a depressed or melancholy mood; to mope …1932 Amer. dial.
– MOG to pout, to grow sullen, to mope; to refuse food …B1900 Eng. dial.
– MUG * to pout, to grow sullen; to mope …c1730 Eng. dial.
 
MOPING – adjectives
– SACKLESS dispirited, melancholy; moping …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
 
MORAL (story) – adjectives
– AFFABULATORY †* of the nature of the moral of a fable; having a moral …1652
moral (story) – nouns 
– AFFABULATION † the moral of a fable …1649
 
MORAL(S), MORALITY – adjectives
– APPROACHABLE of easy morals, sexually easy …sl.
– HIGH-RENT moral …1970s US campus sl.
– LAXITUDE * looseness in moral principles …1861
– MANNERLY † moral, well-conducted …c1400
– PREACHY-PREACHY tediously moral or moralizing …1894 colloq.
– TIGHT-LACED strict in the observance of rules or usages of morality or propriety …1741
moral(s), morality – nouns
– AMORALITY amorous morality …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– OBLIQUITY deviation from ordinary rules; deviation from moral rectitude; inability to distinguish between right and wrong …c1425
moral(s), morality – person
– DUDLEY DOGOODER the epitome of a sincere, moral, upstanding citizen, despised by those who live on the fringes of the law …1990 US sl.
– DUDLEY DO-RIGHT the epitome of a sincere, moral, upstanding citizen, despised by those who live on the fringes of the law …1990 US sl.
– FLIP a person loose in morals …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– MORALIST 1. a teacher or student of morals; a writer on morals; a moral philosopher …a1586
2. † a person who lives by or believes in a natural system of ethics, independently of religion; a person who possesses moral virtue …1642
– WOWSER a person very puritanical in morals; a spoilsport; one who neither swears, drinks, nor smokes …c1895 Aust colloq.
moral(s), morality – verbs
– CALIFORNICATE to seduce and infect with the moral and social standards of Southern California …1990s Amer. sl.
 
MORALE – nouns
– DOBBER spirit, morale; enthusiasm …1910s US sl.
 
MORALIZE – verbs
– PREACHIFY to deliver a tedious sermon; to moralize wearisomely …1775 colloq.
 
MORALIZING – adjectives
– PREACHY-PREACHY tediously moral or moralizing …1894 colloq.
moralizing – nouns 
– PREACHIFYING tedious moralizing …1828
 
MORALLY – adverbs
– MANNERLY † morally …1566
 
MORASS – nouns
– HAG wild, broken ground; rocky moorland; a piece of soft bog in a moor or morass; a marsh … 1662 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– MARRASS a morass; ground liable to be flooded …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SUMP a marsh, a swamp, a bog, a morass …c1425
 
MORE – adjectives
– OVER THE ODDS more than is expected; more than is tolerable …1922 UK sl.
 
MOREOVER – adverbs
– ASIDES moreover, in addition …1890 Eng. dial.
– BESIDE-FORTH † moreover, further …1377
– EFT † again, moreover, likewise …c1000 obs. or arch.
– EFTSOON † again, moreover, likewise …950 obs. or arch.
– EFTSOONS † again, moreover, likewise …c1400 obs. or arch.
– EKE also, too, moreover, in addition …a700 arch.
moreover – prepositions 
– ASIDES in addition to; moreover, beside …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
 
MORGUE – nouns
– DECOMP ROOM the room in a morgue housing decomposed bodies …1983 US sl.
– ICEBOX the morgue …1920s US prison sl.
– OLD MR. GRIM’S HOUSE the morgue …1942 Amer. sl.
– REEFER ROOM in a morgue: a refrigerated room where bodies are stored …1997 US sl.
morgue – person
– GHOUL a morgue attendant; hence, a medical examiner  …1903 Aust. sl.
 
MORMON – nouns
– ZION CURTAIN a supposed cultural boundary separation Mormons, or the state of Utah, as a region dominated by Mormons, from the rest of the country …1969 Amer. dial.
Mormon – person
– AUNT in Mormon polygamous families: the term of address used by children to refer to wives of their father other than their mother …1965 Amer. dial.
– BRIGHAMITE a follower of Brigham Young; a Mormon …1878 US
– CANE-SEED-EATER a Mormon …1942 Amer. dial.
– CARROT EATER (offensive) a Mormon …1968 US sl.
– CARROT SNAPPER (offensive) a Mormon …1968 US sl.
– JACK (derogatory) a non-Mormon with Mormon sympathies …1845 Amer. dial.
– JACK MORMON 1. (derogatory) a non-Mormon with Mormon sympathies …1845 Amer. dial.
  2. (often derogatory) an apostate Mormon …1944 Amer. dial.
– JACKRABBIT an apostate Mormon …1969 Amer. dial.
– MORMON a member or adherent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a millenary Christian sect founded in 1830 at Manchester, New York, by Joseph Smith (1805-44) …1833
– MORMONESS * a female Mormon …1853
– MORMONIST * a member or adherent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a millenary Christian sect founded in 1830 at Manchester, New York, by Joseph Smith (1805-44) …1833
– MORMONITE a member or adherent of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a millenary Christian sect founded in 1830 at Manchester, New York, by Joseph Smith (1805-44) …1831
– SAINT a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; a Mormon …1833 Amer. dial.
Mormon – person, other
– GENTILE one outside the Mormon community …1847 
 
MORNING – adjectives
– MATUTINARY * occurring or performed in the morning, early …1858
– RATHE early in the day; belonging to the morning …1596 Eng. dial. & poetic
morning – nouns 
– ACK EMMA the morning …1890 Brit. sl., orig. military
– BLUE O’CLOCK * just before dawn; very early in the morning …1886
– CANDLE-DOUTING morning, dawn …1746 Eng. dial.
– CHICKEN CROW dawn, early morning …1930 Amer. dial.
– CHICKEN CROWING TIME dawn, early morning …1906 Amer. dial.
– CHICKEN HOLLERING TIME dawn, early morning …1902 Amer. dial.
– DAY-LIGHTENING morning, twilight, daybreak …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DAYS A-DAWNING morning …1960 UK rhyming sl.
– DAY’S DAWNING morning …1960 UK rhyming sl.
– EARLY BEAM, EARLY BEAMS dawn, the early morning …1930s US Black sl.
– EARLY BRIGHT the early morning …1940s US Black sl.
– GIPSY’S WARNING morning; also as ‘good morning’ …20C rhyming sl.
– GYPSY’S WARNING morning; also as ‘good morning’ …20C rhyming sl.
– KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN the morning …20C rhyming sl.
– LAST MORNING † yesterday morning …1591
– MAIDS ADORNING the morning …M19 rhyming sl.
– NEB of the air: chilliness; the sharp tang of early morning …1824 Sc.
– O-DARK-HUNDRED the wee hours of the morning, before or roughly at dawn …1982 US military sl.
– O-DARK-THIRTY the wee hours of the morning, before or roughly at dawn …1980 US military sl.
– PRIMETIDE † the time of prime, early morning …a1300
– QUARTERING TIME the middle of the morning or evening; the hour completely a quarter of a day …1902 Amer. dial.
– SPARROW-FART(S) break of day, very early morning …1886 Eng. dial.
– UGHTEN † the part of the night immediately before daybreak; early morning …971
morning – verbs
– BID THE TIME OF DAY to wish good-morning …1892 Eng. dial.
morning – phrases 
– FAIR-GUID-DAY good morning …1894 Sc.
 
MORNING GLORY – nouns
– HELL-VINE the wild morning glory …1968 Amer. dial.
 
MOROCCO – person
– MOROCCAN a native or inhabitant of Morocco …1786
– TANGERINE a native of Tangier, a seaport in Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar …1860
 
MORON – person
– GILLIGAN a hapless, socially inept person; a moron; an idiot  …1991 US sl.
– NITWIT a simpleton, a moron, a fool …1914 US sl.
– VEDGIE (derogatory) a moron; a madman; a stupid person; someone considered mentally deficient or brain damaged …2001 sl.
– VEG (derogatory) a moron; a madman; a stupid person; someone considered mentally deficient or brain damaged …2001 sl.
– VEGGIE, VEGGY (derogatory) a moron; a madman; a stupid person; someone considered mentally deficient or brain damaged …1989 sl.
– WAG an idiot; a moron …Bk1994 US surfing sl.
– WALLY a stupid, foolish or inept person; an ineffectual person; a bungler; a moron …1969 UK sl.
– ZHLOB an oaf or dolt; a fool, a moron; a boorish, insensitive person; a coarse person, a slob …1950 US sl.
– ZHLUB an oaf or dolt; a fool, a moron; a boorish, insensitive person; a dull, unpolished person, usually a male …1950 US sl. 
 
MOROSE – adjectives
– AGELASTIC † never laughing; morose, gloomy …1731
– ALLAGRUGOUS discontented-looking, ill-natured, morose, disagreeable; grim, ghastly …1742  Sc.
– CAG sulky, morose…M19 US criminals’ sl.
– CHUFFY † clownish, churlish, rude, blunt, surly, morose …a1700 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– DARK gloomy, morose …1897 Eng. dial.
– DARK-LIKE gloomy, morose …1867 Sc.
– EAR-SORE † irritable, ill-tempered, morose, peevish, quarrelsome; apt to take offense …1594 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– EFFERATE †* fierce, harsh, morose …1684
– GLUMPY glum, sullen, sulky, morose, gloomy; ill-tempered, low-spirited, grumpy …1780 chiefly Eng. dial.
– GROWLY subject to moroseness or ill temper expressed in growls …c1920 colloq.
– GRUM grim, surly, sullen, morose, glum …1771 Amer. dial.
– GRUM AND CHUFF sulky in demeanour and surly in speech; morose and forbidding …1950 Amer. dial.
– HUMMEL-DRUMMEL morose and taciturn …B1900 Sc.
– ILL vicious, bad-tempered, cross, angry, peevish, fretful, morose, unpleasant …1857 Amer. dial.
– ILL-BLAINED morose, ill-tempered, irritable …1887 Eng. dial.
– ILL-BLENDED morose, ill-tempered, irritable …1887 Eng. dial.
– ILL-TWINED morose, ill-tempered, irritable …1887 Sc.
– INBIGGIT selfish, morose, reserved …Bk1902 Sc.
– JUNTOUS apt to take offense; ill-tempered, sullen, captious, surly, morose …1875 Eng. dial.
– MUGGARD † sullen, sulky, morose; displeased, discontented …1746 Eng. dial.
​​- QUEER AS DICK’S HATBAND in a very morose or sullen temper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SPLENITIVE †* splenetic; irritable, morose, peevish, ill-humoured, quick-tempered, testy …1633
– TETRICOUS † sour in countenance; austere, severe, harsh, crabbed, perverse, morose …1727
– THIRTOVER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed …1852 Eng. dial.
– THURTIFER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed …1852 Eng. dial.
– THURTOVER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed …1852 Eng. dial.
– THWARTOVER cross, contrary, obstinate, morose, ill-tempered, unruly, self-willed …1852 Eng. dial.
morose – nouns
– FACE LIKE A DYIN’ CALF, A a morose, sorrowful look …1988 Can. sl.
morose – person 
– BAG OF MISERY a morose, unhappy person …Bk1988 Aust. sl.
– BEAR a brutal, coarse, or morose person …1751
– CRAB-STICK a bad-tempered, morose person or child; a disagreeable, crabbed person …1841
– GLUMP a sulky, sullen, morose person; an irritable or gloomy person; a pessimist …1804 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– GLUMPH a sulky, sour or morose person …1815 Sc.
– GLUNNER † an ignorant, morose, sour-tempered fellow …1824 Sc.
– GLUNSCHOCK one who has a frowning or morose countenance; a sour-tempered fellow …Bk1888 Sc.
– GLUNTER † an ignorant, morose, sour-tempered fellow …1824 Sc.
– GRIMSIR † an austere, stern, morose, or overbearing person; a grim old man; a haughty or arrogant person in office …c1450 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– ILL-WILLIE a person of a morose or bad-tempered disposition …1868 Sc. 
– LAUGHING BOY a morose or unpleasant fellow; a gloomy-looking person; used ironically …1940 sl.
– LAUGHING GIRL a morose or unpleasant female; used ironically as the title of a gloomy-looking person …1940 US sl.
– LONG-LIP a person of a sulky, morose temperament …Bk1902 Sc. 
– MISERY-GUTS a depressing, morose, or complaining person …Brit. colloq.
– MOROSO †* a morose, peevish, or surly person …1592
– SAD SACK a habitually morose, miserable person …1943. sl.
– TALL STREAK OF MISERY a person who is always morose or miserable …Bk1988 Aust. sl. 
morose – phrases
– BLACK DOG HAS WALKED OVER HIM, A said of a sullen, discontented, or morose person …1834
 
MORSEL – nouns
– GABBIT a mouthful, a morsel; a fragment, a bit of anything …1724 Sc.
– GABBOCK † a mouthful, a morsel; a fragment, a bit of anything …1706 Sc.
– GABBOT a mouthful, a morsel; a fragment, a bit of anything …1724 Sc.
– GAIBLOCH a mouthful, a morsel; a fragment, a bit of anything …Bk1900 Sc.
– GOLLOP a large morsel; a portion or amount …Bk1899 Amer. dial.
– NATLIN a morsel, a fragment, a small quantity …1908 Sc.
– NATTLE a small piece of anything; a morsel …1908 Sc.
– NIMMIE a little bit, a morsel, a fragment …1808 Sc. 
– NIMP a little bit, a morsel, a fragment …1808 Sc. 
– NIMPIE a little bit, a morsel, a fragment …1915 Sc. 
– NIPPERKIN a morsel, a fragment …1825 Sc. 
– NIRL a small knot or lump; a broken-off fragment, a morsel, a crumb, a small shrivelled-looking object …1808 Sc. 
– NIRT a fragment, a morsel, a particle …1866 Sc. 
– OFFE †* a small piece, a morsel, a crumb …c1420
– SCARR a small quantity; a morsel; a particle …1896 Sc.
– SCRAN a scrap, a morsel; remainder; refuse …1851 Eng. dial.
– SCRANEL a morsel …Bk1904 Sc.
– SCRINCH a morsel; the smallest possible portion …1894 Eng. dial.
– SKRINSH a morsel; the smallest possible portion …1894 Eng. dial.
– TAM a piece; a bite, a morsel of food …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– VANDAVIL an article, a thing, an object, esp. one of little value; a small morsel …a1838 Sc.
– VYNDABLE an article; a thing; a small morsel …Bk1905 Sc.
 
MORTAL, MORTALITY – adjectives
– CADAVERABLE †* mortal …1651
– CAPITAL † of an enemy or enmity: deadly, mortal …1375 obs.
– DEAD-DOING † ‘doing to death’; causing death; killing, murderous; destructive, fatal, mortal … 1590
– DEADLY † subject to death, mortal …c1000
– DEATHFUL 1. full of death; fraught with death; mortal, fatal, destructive, deadly …a1240
*  2. subject to death, mortal …1616 arch. rare
– DEATHLIKE † deadly, fatal, mortal …1548
– DEATHLY † subject to death, mortal …971
– DEATH-STRUCKEN † smitten with death, i.e. with a mortal wound or disease …1622
– FATIFEROUS fate-bringing; deadly, mortal, destructive …1656
mortal, mortality – nouns
– DEADLINESS † the condition of being subject to death; mortality …a1225
– DEATH-EVIL † a mortal disease …c1330
– DEATH-ILL † mortal illness …c1425
– DECEASE † mortality, slaughter …1513
– DEEDLE mortal injury or sickness; death …1853 Sc.  
– QUALE † death, destruction, mortality …c900
 
MORTALLY – adverbs
– DEADLILY * in a deadly manner; mortally, fatally; excessively …1621
– DEADLY † in a way that causes death; mortally, fatally, to death …c1050
 
MORTGAGE – adjectives
– HYPOTHECAL † of the nature of an hypothec, pledge, or mortgage …1606
– HYPOTHECARIOUS * of the nature of an hypothec, pledge, or mortgage …1726
– HYPOTHECARY of the nature of an hypothec, pledge, or mortgage …1656
mortgage – nouns
– BOND a mortgage …Bk1911 Sc.
– IMPIGNORATION pledging, pawning, mortgage …1598
– MONKEY in real estate: a mortgage …1990 Amer. sl.
– MONKEY ON THE CHIMNEY a mortgage on a house …1875 mainly legal usage
– MONKEY ON THE HOUSE a mortgage on a house …1875 mainly legal usage
– MONKEY WITH A LONG TAIL a mortgage …1886 legal usage
– POULTICE a mortgage …1932 Aust. sl.
– THIRLAGE † a mortgage …1824 Sc.
mortgage – person
– MONKEY MAN one who provides a mortgage …1953 NZ sl.
– MORTGAGE-SHARK a legal or commercial man that snatches at mortgages …Bk1930 US sl.
– WADSETTER * one who puts his land to wadset (a legal deed, by which a debtor gives his heritable subjects into the hands of his creditor, that the latter may draw the rents in payment of the debt); a mortgagor …1625 Sc.
mortgage – verbs
– BOND to mortgage …Bk1911 Sc.
– HAVE A MONKEY ON to have a mortgage on a house, etc. …1862 colloq.
– HYPOTHECATE to give or pledge as security; to pledge, to pawn, to mortgage …1693
– IMMORTGAGE †* to mortgage …1575
– IMPIGNERATE to place in pawn; to pledge, to pawn, to mortgage …a1639 chiefly Sc.
– IMPIGNORATE to place in pawn; to pledge, to pawn, to mortgage …a1639 chiefly Sc.
– RADIATE A MORTGAGE to cancel a mortgage …2001 Can. sl.
 
MORTGAGED – adjectives
– IMPIGNORATE † pledged, pawned, mortgaged …1548
 
MORTIFIED – verbs
– SCALD to be mortified …L19 Irish sl.
 
MORTUARY – nouns
– DEAD-HOUSE a building or room in which dead bodies are kept for a time; a mortuary …1833
 
MOSQUE – nouns
– MAHOMERY † a mosque …c1320
 
​MOSQUITO – nouns
– AIRPLANE a very large mosquito …1966 Amer. dial.
– BAR a mosquito net …1835 US
– BOY DOG a very large mosquito …1968 Amer. dial.
– BRASSHEAD a mosquito …1975 Amer. dial.
– BUZZER a mosquito …1954 Amer. dial.
– CANADIAN SOLDIER an extra big mosquito …1965 Amer. dial.
– DIVE BOMBER a mosquito …1965 Amer. dial.
– GABBER NAPPER an extra-big mosquito …1970 Amer. dial.
– GALLEYNIPPER a large mosquito …1818 chiefly US
– GALLINIPPER a large mosquito …1818 chiefly US
– GOLLY-WHOPPER an extra-big mosquito …1966 Amer. dial.
– GRANDFATHER GRAYBEARD a very large mosquito …1967 Amer. dial.
– GRANNY-NIPPER an extra-big mosquito …1968 Amer. dial.
– JAYHAWK a mosquito …1968 Amer. dial.
– KATYNIPPER a mosquito …1954 Amer. dial.
– KING MOSQUITO an extra-big mosquito …1967 Amer. dial.
– MITSY a mosquito …1968 Amer. dial.
– MOSSIE a mosquito …1936 sl., orig. Aust.
– MOUSTICK †* a mosquito …1666
– MOZZIE a mosquito …1936 sl., orig. Aust.
– MOZZY a mosquito …L19 Aust. sl.
– NIGHTHAWK a mosquito …1968 Amer. dial.
– ORNERY PEST a mosquito …1965 Amer. dial.
– PAUL BUNYAN MOSQUITO an extra big mosquito …1969 Amer. dial.
– SKEET a mosquito …M19 Aust. & US sl.
– SKEETER a mosquito …1839 colloq.
– TEXAS MOSQUITO an extra-big mosquito …1900 Amer. dial.
– VAMPIRE a mosquito …1864
– WALLOPER an extra-big mosquito …1966 Amer. dial.
– WHITESOCKS a ferocious if tiny mosquito …1965 US sl.
– WIGGLER a larval mosquito …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– WIGGLE-WAGGLE a larval mosquito …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
 
MOSS – nouns
– DRUID’S-HAIR long moss, such as hangs from a tree …19C Eng. dial.
– MEESE moss; the lichen which grows upon apple-trees …1777 Eng. dial.
 
MOSSY – adjectives
– MEESY mossy …1777 Eng. dial.
 
MOST – adverbs
– LARGEMOST †* most largely or considerably; most …1666
most – nouns 
– THICK END the greater part, the majority or most part …1867 Eng. dial.
 
MOSTLY – adverbs
– FECKLY for the most part, mostly; almost …a1774 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– FOR THE MOST DEAL † for the most part, mostly …1387
– FOR THE VERY MOST mostly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MOSTWHAT † mostly, for the most part …a1300
– MOST-WISE especially, most of all …1943 Amer. dial.
– ON THE MAIN † for the most part, mainly …1832
– RATHEST † most of all, most particularly, mainly …1549
– UPON THE MAIN † for the most part, mainly …1697