mopping

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

“Not yet,” said the Colonel, with much mopping of his brow; “but you will be! — A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill, Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
Franky left off mopping and said, looking at her squarely: "If Austria's Note to Serbia is--what the Kaiser would like it to be--you may take it we're on the giddy verge of a General All-Round Scrap." — That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan
He says, "Five friends have been in poor Tom at once: of lust, as Obidient; Hobbididance, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of mopping and mowing; who since possesses chambermaids and waiting women." — Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare, Leo, graf Tolstoy

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