WotD: (wet) mop

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1. der Wischmopp
2. de zwabber, de mop
3. la fregona
4. el pal de fregar
5. la serpillière, la vadrouille, le essuie-place
6. an mapa
7. y mop
8. mop
9. 대걸레
10. 拖把 tuōbǎ
11. モップ

Notes: 1. Also called a französischer Mopp "French mop", which suggests who it was who gave Germans the notion of washing the floor with something besides a rag. 3. Plus a plethora of regional terms including trapeador, mocho, mechudo, and Spanglish mapo. 5. Somewhat surprisingly, French also shows a lot of regional variance, including the fooling-nobody-with-its-gallicised-spelling ouassingue in the north of France. Vadrouille is a nautical term, whence it ended up in the vernaculars of Canada and Louisiana, both of which also feature the anglicism moppe. Essuie-place is a Louisianism with an interesting history. The original meaning is a rag left at the entrance to a house so visitors could clean off their footwear before entering (from which it has also acquired the extended meaning of "doormat") or a rag used to clean the floor (essuyer means "to wipe"). As is the case with several of the Spanish and French words, when modern-style wet mops came into vogue, existing terms for "floor rag" were simply carried over.

Comments

[anicca-anicca2.livejournal.com]

Oh, really? Because we have Swiffer, too, only here it's those really flimsy disposable "dust magnet" tissues that get wrapped around a flat and even ... thing , not a brush/Schrubber.

(See further down - Beseitigen Sie Schlammspuren ganz ohne Schrubber und Eimer)