| 释义 | mopstick|ˈmɒpstɪk|
[f. mop n.3 + stick.]
1. a. The handle of a mop.
1710Swift Jrnl. to Stella 16 Dec., Hang it [a picture] carefully in some part of your room, where chairs and candles and mop-sticks won't spoil it. 1818Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. 31 Our candidate is vastly like a mopstick, or, rather, a tall hop-pole.
†b. cry mapsticks! app. a vulgar jocose perversion of ‘I cry you mercy’. Obs.
1738Swift Pol. Conversat. i. 26 Neverout. Cry, Map⁓sticks, Madam; no Offence, I hope.
c. = cockalorum 3. colloq.
1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games viii. 257 In Warwick, ‘Mollie, Mollie Mopstick, all off! all off!’ In Nuneaton: Mopstick, mopstick, bear our weight, Two, four, six, eight, ten. Ibid. 260 ‘Jack upon the Mopstick’ (Warwickshire, 1892),..‘Johnny on the Mopstick’ (Worcester, c. 1930),..‘Mopstick’ (Kettering, c. 1915).
2. Pianoforte manufacture. (See quot. 1875.)
1870Brinsmead Hist. Pianoforte 52 The sticker, or mop⁓stick,..raised the damper at the same moment that the hammer was impelled against the string. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Mop stick, a vertical damper-rod at the end of the key in the old piano-forte movement, single action.
attrib.1885Hipkins in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 72/2 This defect is overcome by Zumpe's ‘mopstick’ damper.
3. slang.
a. A stupid man.
b. U.S. (See quot. 1915.)
1886H. Baumann Londinismen 111/2. 1915 World (N.Y.) Sunday Suppl. 9 May 14/3 Mopstick, one who loafs around a cheap saloon or barrel house and cleans up the place for drinks. |
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