Yes, Mark...mope the noun comes from mope the verb, to mope
infinitively. WEBSTER'S has it coming from Dutch and Swedish
and their forebears. You have to be gloomily loitering,
though, to be truly moping about.
This reminds me of "moke," which my W goes on to suggest is
Brit slang for a jackass of either common definition, and
Ozian for a poor horse...but is also a word with long roots
in the US. There was a JD (a very juvenile delinquent, he's
8) film called MOKEY in '42...though whether that's simply
his nickname, I'm not sure. Meanwhile, in Hawaiian Pidgin, a
moke is a tough, and usually young, guy.
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Sorry, miker, I don't know know what a percentage girl is,
but it reminded me of my own question about word derivation.
Now I know what a
"mope" is, but where did the word come from? Does it come
from "moping about," which would imply loitering? Anyone
know?
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