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moll¹

  • /mɒl/

Sounds like mall, maul (some accents), mole (some accents) · Rhymes with -ɒl

Where it comes from

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

noun molls · mole

  1. A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute. 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.

    Similar: molly

  3. Australia, New Zealand, derogatory, slang Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
  4. Australia, New Zealand, slang A girlfriend of a bikie. The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.
  5. Australia, New Zealand, slang A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
  6. slang A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.

Similar: chick

moll²

  • /mɒl/

Sounds like mall, maul (some accents), mole (some accents) · Rhymes with -ɒl

Where it comes from

From German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft, tender, elegiac”). Compare molle (“flat (in music)”).

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål moll.

adjective

  1. not comparable, obsolete minor; in the minor key. Bach's Gavotte in B Moll

Moll³

Where it comes from

From Molly, a diminutive lambdacism of Mary. Compare Sally from Sarah and Hal from Harry.

proper noun

  1. archaic A pet name for Mary. Theſe vvere they that gave me that Name of Moll Flanders: For it vvas no more of Affinity vvith my real Name, or vvith any of the Names I had ever gone by than black, is of Kin to vvhite, […]
  2. alternative Alternative form of Mol, Belgium

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Similar: chick

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Chicago

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@misc{moll_2026,
  title = {moll},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/moll},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}