molly

noun

1. (Ireland, countable, uncountable)A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.
2. (countable, slang, uncountable)a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
3. (slang, uncountable)Pure MDMA powder.

   “So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party / Dancing with Molly / Doing whatever we want”

   “Well…you want to do these together then? Pure Molly…”

   “Was pissed now. But also hyper-lit, euphoric almost, given the adrenaline plus molly.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A mollemoke.

   “So the petrels called to the mollys: but they were so busy and greedy, gobbling and pecking and spluttering and fighting over the blubber, that they did not take the least notice.”

5. (countable, uncountable)A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
6. (countable, uncountable)A bird, the wagtail.
7. (countable, uncountable)A molly bolt.
8. A fish of the genus Poecilia, excluding Endler's livebearers and guppies.
9. (India, South-Asia, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).
10. (slang)A Molotov cocktail.

    “Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit.”

11. (Canada, US, alt-of, slang, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of molly: the crystalline or powdered form of MDMA.
12. (countable, historical, uncountable)A Molly Maguire.

verb

1. To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.

   “I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.”

   “On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.'”

   “It is a case of the biter bit, or the molly-taker mollied, but it is also an interesting example of the ways in which the criminal underworld and sexual underworld met in eighteenth-century London”

name

1. A diminutive of Mary or, less often, Margaret.

   “"My name's Molly. It is an old-fashioned name, and I was christened Mary. But Papa likes Molly." "That's right. Keep to the good old fashions, dear." "Well, I must say I think Mary is prettier than Molly, and quite as old a name, too," said Mrs Hamley. "I think it was," said Molly, lowering her voice, and dropping her eyes, "because mamma was Mary, and I was called Molly when she lived."”

   “But Mother and Father and Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle and Aunty couldn't very well call out "Millicent Margaret Amanda" every time they wanted her, so they shortened it to "Milly-Molly-Mandy" which is quite easy to say.”

2. A female given name from Hebrew.