adj. (colloquial).—See quots. 1696 and 1785. Also MOPISH, MOPING and MOPE-EYED.
1621. FLETCHER, The Pilgrim, iii. 3. What a MOPE-EY’D ass was I.
1640. Wit’s Recreations [HOTTEN], 465.
| MOP-EY’D I am, as some have said, | |
| Because I’ve liv’d so long a maid. |
1647. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Humourous Lieutenant, iv. 6. He is bewitch’d, or MOPED, or his brains melted.
d. 1656. JOSEPH HALL, The Spirituale Bedleem, 29. Here one MOPISHLY stupid, and so fixed to his posture, as if he were a breathing statue.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. MOP-EIED, one that can’t see well, by living too long a maid. Ibid. MOP’D, maz’d.
1717. J. KILLINGBECK, Sermons, 348. [They are] generally traduced as a sort of MOPISH and unsociable creatures.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. MOPED. Stupid, melancholy for want of society.
1880. BROUGHTON, Second Thoughts, viii. ‘She sits drearily stitching, absently reading, MOPINGLY thinking.’
