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molly

noun
/ˈmɒli/UK/ˈmɑli/US/ˈmɒ.li/UK/ˈmɑ.li/US

Etymology

From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.

Definitions

  1. A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.

  2. a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.

  3. 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. ›+ 12 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)

    3. A bird, the wagtail.

    4. A molly bolt.

    5. 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

    6. A fish of the genus Poecilia, excluding Endler's livebearers and guppies.

    7. Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional…

      Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).

    8. 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.

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

      • 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.

    10. A female given name from Hebrew.

    11. Alternative letter-case form of molly

      Alternative letter-case form of molly: the crystalline or powdered form of MDMA.

    12. A Molly Maguire.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for molly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA