moll

• Rhymes: -ɒl

  • Homophone: mall
  • Homophone: maul (some accents)

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

• mole (Australian, girlfriend of surfie or bikie)

• Rhymes: -ɒl

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moll (plural molls)

1. A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794, page 01:

     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, derogatory) 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.

(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”.

• (surfie's girlfriend): chick

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

moll (not comparable)

1. (music, obsolete) minor; in the minor mode

   A moll, that is, A minor

• LOML

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʎ/

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”).

moll (feminine molla, masculine plural molls, feminine plural molles)

1. moist
2. weak

• bocamoll
• aiguamoll

• mullar

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *medullum (compare Occitan mesolh, Spanish meollo, Portuguese miolo, Italian midollo), from Latin medulla[1], and probably influenced by Etymology 1. Doublet of the borrowing medul·la.

moll m (uncountable)

1. marrow, as in bone marrow
2. the soft part of a fruit

From Latin mullus (“red mullet”).

moll m (plural molls)

1. several species of fish

   moll de fang — Mullus barbatus

   moll de roca — Mullus surmuletus

   moll reial — Apogon imberbis

From Latin moles.

moll m (plural molls)

1. quay, jetty
2. breakwater

• “moll” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Borrowed from German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmolː]
• Hyphenation: moll

moll (not comparable)

1. (music) minor

   moll akkord ― minor chord

moll (plural mollok)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

   D-moll ― D minor

• moll in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

From Latin mollis (“soft, mild”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔlː/

  Rhymes: -ɔlː

moll m (genitive singular molls, nominative plural mollar)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

• dúr

From Old Irish moil (“a mass, heap, pile”), mul m (“a globular mass, heap, lump”).

moll m (genitive singular moill, nominative plural mollta)

1. heap; large amount, large number

• Alternative plurals: molltra, molltracha

• moll bréag (“pack of lies”)

• "moll" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “moil”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “mul”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 9780901714299

moll (past voll, future independent mollee, verbal noun molley, past participle mollit)

1. fool, baffle, foil, beguile, cajole, captivate, deceive, bluff, trick
   • Mollee y molteyr oo my oddys eh. ― The deceiver will deceive you if he can.
2. disappoint
   • V'eh mollit nagh daink ee. ― He was disappointed that she did not come.
3. impose
4. be mistaken
   • Ayns shen t'ou mollit. ― That is where you are mistaken.

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

From Old Irish moil (“a mass, heap, pile”), mul m (“a globular mass, heap, lump”).

moll m (genitive singular moll)

1. mass, pile, heap, pack
2. cluster, gathering, collection, huddle
3. nave

From German Moll, from Latin mollis.

• IPA^(key): /mɔlː/

moll m (definite singular mollen, uncountable)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

• dur

• “moll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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• IPA^(key): /mɔl/, [mɔlː]

moll (indeclinable)

1. (music) minor scale

• a-moll

• moll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)