1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Mopsey. A dowdy, or homely woman.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Mopsy. A short dowdy woman.
Mopus, subs. (old).—See quot. 1755.
d. 1745. Swift, Miscellanies, ‘The Grand Question Debated.’ I’m
grown a mere mopus; no company comes But a rabble of tenants.
1755. Johnson, Eng. Dict. (1814), s.v. Mopus ... a cant word from
‘mope’. A drone, a dreamer.
2. (common).—A small coin. [Said to be a corruption of the name of Sir
Giles Mompesson, a monopolist notorious in the reign of James I].
1690. B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1841. Tait’s Edinburgh Rev., viii. 222. Slily to my fob repair, And
leave me not a mopus there.