moll

See also: Moll

Contents

EnglishEdit

Wikipedia

Etymology 1Edit

From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).

Alternative formsEdit

• mole (Australian, girlfriend of surfie or bikie)

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɒl

NounEdit

moll ‎(plural molls)

1. A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a bikie.
   • 1979, Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, p.209:

     The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.

   • 1995, Debra Adelaide, The Hotel Albatross, p.76:

     ‘Oh God!’ groans Julie who once was a bikie moll back in the early seventies. ‘Hope it′s no one I know.’ But the Machismos turn out to be based on a New Zealand gang, which assembled in Australia after her time.

   • 2009, Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema, p.142:

     Gilling first appeared as the biker′s moll Vanessa in Stone (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in Number 96 (1974).

5. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.

Usage notesEdit

(girlfriend of a surfie or bikie): Because Australian pronunciation merges the /ɒ/ and /əʊ/ phonemes before /l/ (both become [oʊl]), this word is very commonly spelt mole in Australia, probably by contamination with mole ‎(“sneaky person”). Indeed, the Australian Oxford dictionary does not list the Australian meaning of the term under the headword moll, but only under mole, although it does recognise that mole in this sense is “probably” a mere “variant of moll”.

SynonymsEdit

• (surfie's girlfriend): chick

Etymology 2Edit

German, from Latin mollis ‎(“soft, tender, elegiac”). Compare molle ‎(“flat (in music)”).

AdjectiveEdit

moll ‎(not comparable)

1. (music, obsolete) minor; in the minor mode

   A moll, that is, A minor

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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CatalanEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin mollis.

AdjectiveEdit

moll m ‎(feminine molla, masculine plural molls, feminine plural molles)

1. moist
2. weak

Related termsEdit

• mullar

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin medulla, influenced by Etymology 1.

NounEdit

moll m ‎(uncountable)

1. marrow, as in bone marrow
2. the soft part of a fruit

Etymology 3Edit

From Latin mullus ‎(“red mullet”).

NounEdit

moll m ‎(plural molls)

1. several species of fish

   moll de fang — Mullus barbatus

   moll de roca — Mullus surmuletus

   moll reial — Apogon imberbis

Etymology 4Edit

From Latin moles.

NounEdit

moll m ‎(plural molls)

1. quay, jetty
2. breakwater

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IcelandicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mollis ‎(“soft, mild”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mɔlː/

  Rhymes: -ɔlː

NounEdit

moll m ‎(genitive singular molls, nominative plural mollar)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

DeclensionEdit

declension of moll

m-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	moll	mollinn	mollar	mollarnir
accusative	moll	mollinn	molla	mollana
dative	molli / moll	mollinum / mollnum	mollum	mollunum
genitive	molls	mollsins	molla	mollanna

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

a-moll cís-moll c-moll d-moll e-moll

fís-moll f-moll g-moll h-moll

See alsoEdit

• dúr

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish moil ‎(“a mass, heap, pile”), mul m ‎(“a globular mass, heap, lump”).

NounEdit

moll m ‎(genitive singular moill, nominative plural mollta)

1. heap; large amount, large number

DeclensionEdit

Declension of moll

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative moll mollta Vocative a mhoill a mhollta Genitive moill mollta Dative moll mollta

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an moll na mollta Genitive an mhoill na mollta Dative leis an moll don mholl leis na mollta

• Alternative plurals: molltra, molltracha

Derived termsEdit

• moll bréag ‎(“pack of lies”)

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
moll	mholl	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

• "moll" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “moil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “mul” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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ManxEdit

EtymologyEdit

VerbEdit

moll ‎(verbal noun molley)

1. fool, baffle, foil, beguile, cajole, captivate, deceive, bluff, trick
2. disappoint
3. impose

Derived termsEdit

• molteyr ‎(“deceiver, charlatan, duper, fraud, cheat, con man, impostor”)

MutationEdit

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
moll	voll	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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• IPA^(key): /mɔl/, [mɔlː]

NounEdit

moll n

1. (music) minor scale