Lexicographical Neighbors of Mooped
Literary usage of Mooped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland by Andrew Cheviot (1896)
"YE was bred aboot the mill, ye hae mooped a' yer manners. Spoken to inferiors
when they show themselves rude in their speech or behaviour.—Kelly. ..."
2. Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Ellen Frothingham (1874)
"NOTE 37, p. 108. PROLOGUE to the Satires, 340. That not in Fancy's maze he wandered
long, But mooped to Truth and moralized his ..."
3. The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop (1868)
"Ye was bred about the mill, ye hae mooped a' your manners. '' Spoken to inferiors
when they show themselves rude in their speech or behaviour."—Kelly. ..."
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