moll

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As for gun moll, there was no phrase in the Warsaw or Odessa underworlds like "gonif molly."

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  • Fielding, he says “couldn't do otherwise than laugh at the puny cockney bookseller, pouring out endless volumes of sentimental twaddle, and hold him up to scorn as a moll-coddle and a milksop. —  Henry Fielding A Memoir
  • As for gun moll, there was no phrase in the Warsaw or Odessa underworlds like "gonif molly." —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
  • If I am not mistaken, the word moll is a well-rooted native word in English going back at least as far as Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
  • In this squalid context even her clothes (she was still wearing her riding costume, windbreaker and blue jeans) suggested a gang-moll hooligan: an impression dark glasses, disarrayed coiffure and a Picayune cigarette dangling from sullen lips did not diminish. —  Breakfast At Tiffany's
  • "T-moll," said Hugher congenially to the other priest, "please get in touch with Tu-poa and advise him about this. —  Blockade, Lepso
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Probably from the name Moll, nickname for Mary.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Latin mollis, neuter molle, soft.
 

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