mopes

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mope

(mōp)

intr.v. moped, mop·ing, mopes

1. To think gloomily and persistently about something; be dejected. See Synonyms at brood.

2. To move in a listless or aimless manner, especially from being sad or depressed: moped about the house all summer.

1. A person given to gloomy or dejected moods.

2. mopes Low spirits; the blues. Often used with the.

[Origin unknown.]

mop′er n.

mop′ish, mop′ey adj.

mop′ish·ly adv.

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mopes

(məʊps)

pl n

the mopes low spirits

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mopes - an informal expression for a mildly depressed state; "in the dumps"; "have the mopes"

dumps

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

low spirits - a state of mild depression

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mopes

pl (inf) to have a case of the mopes → seinen or den Moralischen haben (inf)

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But anyway, he gets out by himself and mopes and thinks; and mostly he hunts for a lonesome place high up on the hill in the edge of the woods, and sets there and looks away off on the big Mississippi down there a-reaching miles and miles around the points where the timber looks smoky and dim it's so far off and still, and everything's so solemn it seems like everybody you've loved is dead and gone, and you 'most wish you was dead and gone too, and done with it all.

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It may be that he misses in his mistress, something that enlivened him and made him younger; but he mopes, and his sight is weak, and his limbs are feeble, and my aunt is sorry that he objects to her no more, but creeps near her as he lies on Dora's bed - she sitting at the bedside - and mildly licks her hand.

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You should not mope all day in your rooms, but should come out into the green garden, and hear the birds sing with joy among the trees, and see the butterflies fluttering above the flowers, and hear the bees and insects hum, and watch the sunbeams chase the dew-drops through the rose-leaves and in the lily-cups.