mopsy
/ˈmɒpsi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A given name for a pet animal; stereotypically a shaggy animal looking somewhat like a mop head; frequently a shaggy dog.
Example Sentences
- "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"
- "However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman."