moppet
Example Sentences
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The girl herself has been a vampire for 10 years rather than hundreds, and the boy is an unbearably cute moppet who does magic tricks.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
And, like that earlier film, this movie is less about the exploits of an adorable moppet and his worldly-wise older relative than the brother-sister relationship that hovers just around the edges.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
This straw-stuffed moppet, with black eyes reminiscent of a shark's, can be seen at the Fort East Martello Museum in Key West, Florida — though why anyone would want to is a mystery.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2021
It is a bit dismaying to see Roman Griffin Davis in here for his moderate child-actor moppet turn in the worryingly overindulged Jojo Rabbit.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2020
I HAD a little moppet, I put it in my pocket, And fed it with corn and hay, There came a proud beggar And swore he would have her, And stole my little moppet away.
From The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes by Various
