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Moppet

noun
1.
A little girl (usually one you are fond of).





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"Moppet" Quotes from Famous Books



... like your humour, and will meet your jest. She should be one about my Katherine's age; But not so old, by some ten years, in gravity. One that would meet my mirth, sometimes outrun it; No puling, pining moppet, as you said, Nor moping maid, that I must still be teaching The freedoms of a wife all her life after: But one, that, having worn the chain before, (And worn it lightly, as report gave out,) Enfranchised ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... speaker Elfgiva raised her head slightly, laughing as she let it sink back. "Watching for him already, and the sun but little past noon? For shame, moppet! ...
— The Ward of King Canute • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... said no one knew. "What gibberish you talk!" exclaimed Charley. She would not allow him to come near her. She remembered how he had pulled her hair and tussled with Willie. But two bright buttons on a string made peace between them. He put the mop on his head, and shook it at her, saying, "Moppet, you'd be pretty, if you wore your hair like folks." Willie was satisfied with this concession; and already the whole family began to outgrow the feeling that the little wayfarer belonged to a ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various


Words linked to "Moppet" :   little girl, girl, female child


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