{"id":129,"date":"2002-09-18T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-18T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=129"},"modified":"2002-09-18T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-18T14:05:00","slug":"todays-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/129-todays-word","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"590\" vspace=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"456\" align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"426\" align=\"center\" background=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/images\/pixt.gif\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" width=\"100%\" height=\"75\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=0 height=59 src=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/images\/title_dict.gif\" width=356> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"456\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#CC0000\" width=\"456\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=0 height=53 src=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/images\/dict_tabs.gif\" useMap=#tabsmap2 width=456><\/p>\n<map name=\"tabsmap2\">\n<area shape=\"RECT\" alt=\"Dictionary\" title=\"dictionary\" coords=\"0,24,176,53\" href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/home.htm\">\n<area shape=\"RECT\" alt=\"Thesaurus\" title=\"thesaurus\" coords=\"180,26,354,53\" href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/thesaurus?book=Thesaurus&#038;va=mope\">\n<area shape=\"RECT\" alt=\"Merriam-Webster Unabridged\" title=\"mwu\" coords=\"358,24,456,53\" href=\"http:\/\/www.Merriam-WebsterUnabridged.com\/mwol-2c.htm\">\n  <\/map>\n<table bgcolor=\"white\" width=\"446\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tr>\n<td> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/images\/pixt.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\"><br \/>\nMain Entry:\t<b><sup>1<\/sup>mope<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/audio.pl?mope0001.wav=mope\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/images\/audio.gif\" border=0 height=11 width=16><\/a><br \/>\nPronunciation:\t<tt>'mOp<\/tt><br \/>\nFunction:\t<i>intransitive verb<\/i><br \/>\nInflected Form(s):\t<b>moped<\/b>; <b>mop\u00b7ing<\/b><br \/>\nEtymology:\tprobably from obsolete <i>mop, mope <\/i>fool<br \/>\nDate:\t1568<br \/>\n<b>1<\/b> <i>archaic<\/i> <b>:<\/b> to act in a dazed or stupid manner<br \/><b>2<\/b> <b>:<\/b> to give oneself up to brooding <b>:<\/b> become listless or dejected<br \/><b>3<\/b> <b>:<\/b> to move slowly or aimlessly <b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?book=Dictionary&#038;va=dawdle\"><font size=\"-1\">DAWDLE<\/font><\/a><\/b><br \/>&#8211; <b>mop\u00b7er<\/b> <i>noun<\/i><br \/>&#8211; <b>mop\u00b7ey<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/audio.pl?mope0002.wav=mopey\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/images\/audio.gif\" border=0 height=11 width=16><\/a>  \/<tt>'mO-pE<\/tt>\/ <i>adjective<\/i><\/form>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table bgcolor=\"#CC0000\" width=\"456\">\n<tr>\n<td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Entry: 1mope Pronunciation: &#8216;mOp Function: intransitive verb Inflected Form(s): moped; mop\u00b7ing Etymology: probably from obsolete mop, mope fool Date: 1568 1 archaic : to act in a dazed or stupid manner2 : to give oneself up to brooding : &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/129-todays-word\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}