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In some senses, moll is marked as derogatory, slang, obsolete, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
moll
/mɒl/
noun 5name 2adj 1
Collocations
3VERB + MOLL
name
MOLL + NOUN
flanders
PREP.
in, than
Definitions
noun
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.
"Makes me feel like a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on. "Better, I imagine, to be a pirate than a pirate's moll," I told her.
2
A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
3
Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
4
A girlfriend of a bikie.
The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.
‘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.
5
A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
adj
1
minor; in the minor key.
Bach's Gavotte in B Moll
name
1
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 form of Mol, Belgium
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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
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"Makes me feel like a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on. "Better, I imagine, to be a pirate than a pirate's moll," I told her.
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The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.
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Bach's Gavotte in B Moll
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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, […]
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