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moppet
[ mop-it ]
noun
- a young child.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of moppet1
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Example Sentences
Moppet and Mittens tried to pull him together; his hat fell off, and the rest of his buttons burst.
Moppet and Tom descended after her; the pinafores and all the rest of Tom's clothes came off on the way down.
They turned their pinafores back to front, and went up with a skip and a jump; Moppet's white tucker fell down into the road.
Poor kid, when she was a barefoot moppet she stepped on a fledgling robin in the grass.
This is the Mouse peeping out behind the cupboard, and making fun of Miss Moppet.
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