MOPE, MOPING
ADJECTIVES
► GLUMPISH surly, sulky; gloomy, mopish → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MOPEY given to moping; listless and dejected → 1821 colloq.
► MOPISH given to moping → 1621
► MOPSICAL moping, low-spirited, drooping → 1867 Eng. dial.
► PEENGING whining, complaining, moping → 1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SACKLESS dispirited, melancholy; moping → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► MOPERY a fit of moping → 1925
NOUNS – PERSON
► MOPUS a person who mopes → 1635
VERBS
► BOODY to sulk, mope, or be sullen; to look angry, glum, or gruff → 1857
► DRAG ONE’S TAIL to mope around, to look miserable → 1939 US sl.
► GROUCH to sulk or grumble; to mope → 1907 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 ► MOGG to pout, to grow sullen; to mope; to refuse food → 1730 Eng. dial.
► MOPSE to mope → 1896 Eng. dial.
► MUG to pout, to grow sullen; to mope → 1730 Eng. dial.
► MUMP to be silent and sullen; to sulk, to mope → 1610
► MUNGE to mutter, to grumble; to mope → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► PEAK to wander about dejectedly; to mope → 1568 obs.
► PEENGE to mope, to fret; to whine → 1791 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.