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Child, informally
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moppet
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Word definitions for moppet in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moppet \Mop"pet\, n. [From 3d Mop .] A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman. (Zo["o]l.) A long-haired pet dog.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context colloquial English) A child. 2 (context dated English) A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth. 3 (context dated English) A long-haired pet dog.
Usage examples of moppet.
Miss Moppet, you are a courageous little maid to wish to venture in these woods.
Miss Moppet had staggered upon her feet and was looking with astonished eyes at her dripping clothing.
Miss Moppet, much less agitated than her sister, and being always a small person of many resources.
Betty shuddered and grew pale again at the very thought of what Miss Moppet had escaped.
But Miss Moppet threw her arms around his neck as he bent over the gray pony and secured the cape more tightly around her small shoulders.
I cannot tell how--but Moppet must have ventured too near the edge, for the treacherous soil gave way, and down she pitched into the water before I could put out hand to stay her.
Miss Moppet be properly rubbed and made dry, and let her take her hot posset, and then, if not too tired, she may come to me in the kitchen.
And Moppet, whose belief in a personal devil was evidently large, surveyed Miss Bidwell with uncompromising eyes.
Oliver looked from Moppet to Betty, in bewilderment then back at his prisoner, who seemed the most unconcerned of the group.
Betty sat pondering for a moment, then she slid Moppet gently from her lap to the floor and rose.
It proved the tenacity of her purpose and the strength of her will that, notwithstanding her many misgivings, when she heard the clock sound the quarter she rose from her low seat by the window, where she had been gazing out into the night, and whispered softly to Moppet that it was time to wake.
Moppet, seizing the situation with such alacrity that Betty suspected on the instant that the keen little ears had been on the alert for more minutes than Moppet cared to acknowledge.
General Wolcott, casting off his hat and gloves, seated himself with Moppet on his knee, and Miss Bidwell appeared from the kitchen with fresh reinforcements of breakfast for the newcomers.
And when Moppet was safely lodged in bed Betty sat down beside her to hold her hand until she dropped asleep.
Betty, her thoughts far away as she wondered what Moppet was doing up in the Litchfield hills, and whether Oliver had got back safely to the army again.