molly

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (softness, weakness). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.[1]

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molly (countable and uncountable, plural mollies)

  1. (now chiefly Ireland) A woman or girl, especially of low status.
  2. (slang) An effeminate male, a male homosexual.
  3. (slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder.
    Synonym: mandy
    • 2013, “We Can't Stop”, in Bangerz, performed by Miley Cyrus:
      So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party / Dancing with Molly / Doing whatever we want
    • 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi[1], Hachette, →ISBN:
      Was pissed now. But also hyper-lit, euphoric almost, given the adrenaline plus molly.
  4. A mollemoke.
  5. A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
  6. A bird, the wagtail.
  7. A molly bolt.
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Verb

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molly (third-person singular simple present mollies, present participle mollying, simple past and past participle mollied)

  1. To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.
    • 1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79:
      I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.
    • 2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain:
      On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.'
    • 2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day:
      It is a case of the biter bit, or the molly-taker mollied, but it is also an interesting example of the ways in which the criminal underworld and sexual underworld met in eighteenth-century London

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Etymology 2

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From Mollienesia, an invalid taxonomic name for the genus, influenced by the personal name Molly.

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molly (plural mollies)

  1. A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies.
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Etymology 3

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molly (plural mollies)

  1. (India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener).

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terms containing "molly" (probably etymologically unrelated)

Etymology 4

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    Clipping of Molotov.

    Noun

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    molly (plural mollies)

    1. (video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.
      • 2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports[2], archived from the original on 2022-08-11:
        Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit.

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