moplike

moplike

English

Etymology

From mop +‎ -like.

Adjective

moplike (comparative more moplike, superlative most moplike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a mop, or the loose, dangling, fibrous mass at the end.
    his moplike fringe of hair
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 178:
      The sooty blackness of the skin, the mop-like head of frizzly hair, and, most important of all, the marked form of countenance of quite a different type from that of the Malay, are what we cannot believe to result from mere climatal or other modifying influences on one and the same race.

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