mopus

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• IPA^(key): /ˈməʊpəs/
• Rhymes: -əʊpəs

mopus (countable and uncountable, plural mopuses or mopusses)

1. (obsolete) A dull, spiritless, idle person.

   Synonyms: mope, drone

   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn:

     I'm grown a mere mopus; no company comes […]

2. (slang, countable, uncountable) Money.

• “mopus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.