molly
See also: Molly
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒli
- Homophones: mollie, Mollie, Molly
Etymology 1
From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”)
Noun
molly (countable and uncountable, plural mollies)
- (now chiefly Ireland) A woman or girl, especially of low status.
- (slang) An effeminate male, a male homosexual.
- (slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder.
- A mollemoke.
- A female cat; a she-cat.
- A bird, the wagtail.
- A molly bolt.
Derived terms
Verb
molly (third-person singular simple present mollies, present participle mollying, simple past and past participle mollied)
- To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.
- 1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79:
- I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.
- 2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain:
- 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.'
- 2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day:
- 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
Etymology 2
From Mollienesia, an invalid taxonomic name for the genus, influenced by the personal name Molly
Noun
molly (plural mollies)
Translations
fish
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