dust mop
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- noun
- /dʌst mɑp/
:
mopa
- She used a dust mop to clean the hardwood floors and remove all the dust.
Examples
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Jean-Claude, take those wretched dust mops away!
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The window's open; in fact, it is wide open because I took the screen out when I shook the dust mop out the window this morning, and I forgot to put it back in.
Fiction book (1992) -
I'm gonna give him a dust mop next time so he can sweep the ceiling while he's up there.
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Inside, monks in white robes swept the aisles silently with great dust mops.
Fiction book (1999) -
After vacuuming, I finished the job with a dust mop for a perfect shine.
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The janitor grabbed his dust mop and headed towards the classroom to clean the floors.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a mop for removing dust' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'dust' (tiny dry particles) with 'mop' (a cleaning tool), with 'dust' functioning as a modifier that specifies the mop's target. This straightforward noun–noun compounding pattern is common across languages and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Dust mop was named for what it does: a dry mop that picks up dust from floors. So, it means 'a long-handled cleaning tool used to remove dust'.