Word Meanings - MOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!" Beau. & Fl.

Related words: (words related to MOP)

• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• GRIMACED
  Distorted; crabbed.
• GRIMACE
  A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that