Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Moping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mope \Mope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Moped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Moping}.] [Cf. D. moppen to pout, Prov. G. muffen to sulk.]
To be dull and spiritless. ``Moping melancholy.'' --Milton.
A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope.
--Shak.
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