Mopsy
//ˈmɒpsi// name, noun
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Synonym of moppet.
- 2 A slatternly, untidy woman. obsolete
"rich hande-kercheefes, in their handes, and sometymes laied acrosse over their shoulders and neckes, borrowed for the moste parte of their pretie Mopsies and loovyng Bessies for bussyng them in the darcke"
Proper Noun
- 1 A nickname for a person with a mop of hair.
- 2 A given name for a pet animal; stereotypically a shaggy animal looking somewhat like a mop head; frequently a shaggy dog.
Example
More examples"rich hande-kercheefes, in their handes, and sometymes laied acrosse over their shoulders and neckes, borrowed for the moste parte of their pretie Mopsies and loovyng Bessies for bussyng them in the darcke"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From mop + -sy. From mopsy, from mop. Compare moppet.
Etymology 2
From mop + -sy.
More for "mopsy"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.