moll
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).
Alternative formsEdit
- mole (Australian, girlfriend of surfie or bikie)
PronunciationEdit
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- Rhymes: -ɒl
NounEdit
moll (plural molls)
- 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.
- 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, The Bat, chapterI:
- A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
- (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).
- 1979, Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, p.209:
- (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)
TranslationsEdit
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.)
CatalanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Provençal (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”).
AdjectiveEdit
moll (feminine molla, masculine plural molls, feminine plural molles)
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin medulla, influenced by Etymology 1. Doublet of the borrowing medul·la.
NounEdit
moll m (uncountable)
- marrow, as in bone marrow
- the soft part of a fruit
Etymology 3Edit
From Latin mullus (“red mullet”).
NounEdit
moll m (plural molls)
- several species of fish
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
moll m (plural molls)
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mollis (“soft, mild”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
moll m (genitive singular molls, nominative plural mollar)
- (music) minor (scale or key)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
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)
- heap; large amount, large number
DeclensionEdit
- Alternative plurals: molltra, molltracha
Derived termsEdit
- moll bréag (“pack of lies”)
MutationEdit
| 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. |
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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.
ManxEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
moll (verbal noun molley)
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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Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From German Moll, from Latin mollis.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
moll m (definite singular mollen, uncountable)
- (music) minor (scale or key)
AntonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “moll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.