Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several tropical and subtropical live-bearing fishes of the genus Poecilia of the Americas, often kept in home aquariums.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A familiar form of the feminine name
  • noun [lowercase; pl. mollies (-iz).] The wagtail, a bird: as, the yellow molly (the yellow wagtail); the molly wash-dish (the pied wagtail).
  • noun The mallemuck or fulmar, Fulmarus glacialis. See fulmar.
  • noun In India, a gardener or one of the caste of gardeners. Also mallee.
  • noun In the printers' game of jelling, a throw of quadrats which exposes only the unnicked sides; hence, any useless work with types in a composing-room.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Same as mollemoke.
  • noun A pet or colloquial name for Mary.
  • noun (Zoöl.) See Cottontail.
  • noun A member of a similar association of Irishmen organized in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, about 1854, for the purpose of intimidating employers and officers of the law, and for avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A woman or girl, especially of low status.
  • noun slang An effeminate male, a male homosexual.
  • noun slang A nickname or street name for pure MDMA powder.
  • noun A fish of the genus Poecilia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun popular aquarium fish

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Mollienesia, former genus name, after Comte François Nicolas Mollien, (1758–1850), French politician.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary.

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Examples

  • Good golly miss molly, is the RNC and the GOP that scared and desperate, I'll be watching ABC for sure.

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  • November 3, 2008 8: 20 AM awww .. molly is so pretty.

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  • December 7, 2008 2: 19 AM aww im happy molly is back. .yay!!!

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  • He must not be what brave boys called a molly-coddle: like most womanly women, she had a veneration for man, and she gave him her own high idea of the manly character.

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  • The drugs involved marijuana, ecstasy pills, a powdered form of ecstasy commonly called "molly," and prescription drugs such as Xanax, hydrocodone and Oxycontin, McGee said.

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  • Anyway, i have a dog, a 3year old colli lab X called molly, but i have a problem, when im in basic there will be no one to look after her, so iv had to come to the desision that im gunna have to have her rehomed, altho i realy dont want to: s i have no other options, so i come to you for advise, maby someone who is looking for a new dog or kno anyone that is, around the yorkshire area is posible .. cheers

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  • Email a copy of 'molly's apple tarte tatin' to a friend

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  • Email a copy of 'molly's dry-rubbed ribs' to a friend

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  • a stout expanding wall anchor (known as a molly bolt) is a good alternative for securing the grab bar.

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  • a stout expanding wall anchor (known as a molly bolt) is a good alternative for securing the grab bar.

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