mod English · revision 15018

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /mɒd/, US /mɑːd/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a clipping of [[modern]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) or in Collins of [[modernist]].^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A member of a group of fashion-conscious British teenagers: 1960.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The mods of the 1960s affected extreme neatness and a liking for stylish clothes,^(Barnhart 1988) and were usually contrasted with rockers.^(Etymonline)^(Collins 2023) The adjective, very up to date and fashionable, is from 1960 in the OED, 1965 in Barnhart.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) A revival of the mods followed in the late 1970s and early 1980s.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1960 – a mod; mod (adjective).^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1965 – mod, fashionable.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(British)'' A member of a group of clothes-conscious teenagers of the mid-1960s, or of their revival in the late 1970s, opposed to the [[rocker|alt=rockers]].^(Collins 2023)^(Etymonline)

+ # A fashionably modern style of dress that began in England in the 1960s.^(AHD)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Fashionably up to date, especially in style or dress.^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[modder]]

+ * [[mod con]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[modern]]

+ * [[rocker]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Several other words are spelled mod: a clipping of [[modification]] (about 1920, first among aviators);^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) an abbreviation of [[modulo]] in mathematics (1854);^(OED 1989) and the Mòd, the yearly Highland Gaelic festival of music and literature (1893), from Scottish Gaelic, ultimately from Old Norse (compare [[moot]] and [[meet]]).^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}