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Definition of Moppets
1. moppet [n] - See also: moppet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Moppets
Literary usage of Moppets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"... stately, with two great moppets of hair on either side her brow, (as in the
old engravings of Louis Philippe's good queen Amelia,) very resolute, ..."
2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... to decoy the inquisitive multitude, while all within are stuffed skins and
moppets. The Epistle Dedicatory is addressed to the Countess of Southampton, ..."
3. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1915)
"'T is along of these 'ere young youths and fly-by-night moppets as is set over
the children nowadays; being themselves ..."
4. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1852)
"... If some wives had obtain'da lot like youre," And then perhaps I sigh'd, " they
would not sit In corners moping, like to sullen moppets, That want their ..."
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