moll

See also: Moll and møll

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɒl

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • mole (Australian, girlfriend of surfie or bikie)

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɒl

Noun

moll (plural molls)

  1. 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.
  2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
  3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) 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

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

Catalan

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

Etymology 2

From Latin medulla, 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

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

Derived terms

See also

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

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.
  • “moil” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “mul” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Manx

Verb

moll (verbal noun molley)

  1. fool, baffle, foil, beguile, cajole, captivate, deceive, bluff, trick
  2. disappoint
  3. impose

Derived terms

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

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
mollvollunchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

References

Swedish

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɔl/, [mɔlː]

Noun

moll (indeclinable)

  1. (music) minor scale

Derived terms

References

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