moll

See also: Moll and møll

Contents

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒl

  • Homophone: mall
  • Homophone: maul (some accents)

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• mole (Australian, girlfriend of surfie or bikie)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒl

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Noun

moll (plural molls)

1. A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:

     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, derogatory) 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 notes

(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”.

Synonyms

• (surfie's girlfriend): chick

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

moll (not comparable)

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

   A moll, that is, A minor

Translations

minor — see 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.
(See the entry for moll in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• LOML

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʎ/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan mòl), from Latin mollis, mollem (compare French mou, Spanish muelle), from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *(h₂)moldus (“soft, weak”), from *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”).

Adjective

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

1. moist
2. weak

Derived terms

• bocamoll
• aiguamoll

Related terms

• mullar

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *medullum (compare Occitan mesolh, Spanish meollo, Portuguese miolo, Italian midollo), from Latin medulla, and probably influenced by Etymology 1. Doublet of the borrowing medul·la.

Noun

moll m (uncountable)

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

Etymology 3

From Latin mullus (“red mullet”).

Noun

moll m (plural molls)

1. several species of fish

   moll de fang — Mullus barbatus

   moll de roca — Mullus surmuletus

   moll reial — Apogon imberbis

Etymology 4

From Latin moles.

Noun

moll m (plural molls)

1. quay, jetty
2. breakwater

Further reading

• “moll” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

References

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmolː]
• Hyphenation: moll

Adjective

moll (not comparable)

1. (music) minor

   moll akkord ― minor chord

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	moll	mollok
accusative	mollt	mollokat
dative	mollnak	molloknak
instrumental	mollal	mollokkal
causal-final	mollért	mollokért
translative	mollá	mollokká
terminative	mollig	mollokig
essive-formal	mollként	mollokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mollban	mollokban
superessive	mollon	mollokon
adessive	mollnál	molloknál
illative	mollba	mollokba
sublative	mollra	mollokra
allative	mollhoz	mollokhoz
elative	mollból	mollokból
delative	mollról	mollokról
ablative	molltól	molloktól

Noun

moll (plural mollok)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

   D-moll ― D minor

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	moll	mollok
accusative	mollt	mollokat
dative	mollnak	molloknak
instrumental	mollal	mollokkal
causal-final	mollért	mollokért
translative	mollá	mollokká
terminative	mollig	mollokig
essive-formal	mollként	mollokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	mollban	mollokban
superessive	mollon	mollokon
adessive	mollnál	molloknál
illative	mollba	mollokba
sublative	mollra	mollokra
allative	mollhoz	mollokhoz
elative	mollból	mollokból
delative	mollról	mollokról
ablative	molltól	molloktól

Possessive forms of moll
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	mollom	molljaim
2nd person sing.	mollod	molljaid
3rd person sing.	mollja	molljai
1st person plural	mollunk	molljaink
2nd person plural	mollotok	molljaitok
3rd person plural	molljuk	molljaik

References

Further reading

• moll in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Latin mollis (“soft, mild”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔlː/

  Rhymes: -ɔlː

Noun

moll m (genitive singular molls, nominative plural mollar)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

Declension

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 terms

Derived terms

• a-moll
• cís-moll
• c-moll
• d-moll
• e-moll

• fís-moll
• f-moll
• g-moll
• h-moll

See also

• dúr

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Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

moll m (genitive singular moill, nominative plural mollta)

1. heap; large amount, large number

Declension

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 terms

• moll bréag (“pack of lies”)

Mutation

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

References

• "moll" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “moil”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “mul”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

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Manx

Etymology 1

Verb

moll (past voll, future independent mollee, verbal noun molley, past participle mollit)

1. fool, baffle, foil, beguile, cajole, captivate, deceive, bluff, trick
   • Mollee y molteyr oo my oddys eh. ― The deceiver will deceive you if he can.
2. disappoint
   • V'eh mollit nagh daink ee. ― He was disappointed that she did not come.
3. impose
4. be mistaken
   • Ayns shen t'ou mollit. ― That is where you are mistaken.

Derived terms

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

moll m (genitive singular moll)

1. mass, pile, heap, pack
2. cluster, gathering, collection, huddle
3. nave

Mutation

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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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Moll, from Latin mollis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔlː/

Noun

moll m (definite singular mollen, uncountable)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

Antonyms

• dur

References

• “moll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio

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• IPA^(key): /mɔl/, [mɔlː]

Noun

moll (indeclinable)

1. (music) minor scale

Derived terms

• a-moll

References

• moll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)