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 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.
- 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).
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 orgirl , 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
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Examples
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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.
A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day Charles Reade 1849
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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.
USATODAY.com Feed 2012
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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
Army Rumour Service 2009
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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.
SFGate: Top News Stories sweatequity@sfchronicle.com (Bill Burnett 2010
bilby commented on the word molly
"Miley likes molly, Miley likes weed, Miley doesn't like cocaine. That's pretty much what you need to know if you're in the mood to procure drugs for Miss Miley Cyrus."
- Christie D'Zurilla, Miley Cyrus on drugs: Weed, molly are the bomb, coke not so much, LA Times, 27 Sep 2013.
October 12, 2013