moll

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/mɒl/

Definition of moll

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute.
    “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.”
    “"Makes me feel like a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on. "Better, I imagine, to be a pirate than a pirate's moll," I told her.”
    “The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.”
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noun

  1. A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute.
    “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.”
    “"Makes me feel like a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on. "Better, I imagine, to be a pirate than a pirate's moll," I told her.”
    “The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.”
  2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
  3. (Australia, New-Zealand, derogatory, slang)Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
  4. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang)A girlfriend of a bikie.
    “The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.”
    “‘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.”
    “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.
  6. (slang)A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.

adj

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete)minor; in the minor key.
    “Bach's Gavotte in B Moll”

name

  1. (archaic)A pet name for Mary.
    “Theſe vvere they that gave me that Name of Moll Flanders: For it vvas no more of Affinity vvith my real Name, or vvith any of the Names I had ever gone by than black, is of Kin to vvhite, […]”
  2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Mol, Belgium

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

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