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moll

  (mŏl) pronunciation
n. Slang.
  1. A woman companion of a gunman or gangster.
  2. A woman prostitute.

[Probably from the name Moll, nickname for Mary.]


 
 
Thesaurus: moll

noun

    A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for payment: bawd, call girl, camp follower, courtesan, harlot, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, tart2, whore. Slang hooker. Idioms: lady of easy virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the night. See sex/asexual.

 

(Ger.: ‘soft’)

Minor, as in A moll (A minor).



 
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IN BRIEF: n. - The girl friend of a gangster.

Tutor's tip: Offended by my remark about her "mole," (a dark skin spot) the "moll" (gangster's girlfriend) threatened to "maul" (to beat or batter) me in the parking lot of the "mall" (shopping center).

 
Wikipedia: Moll


Moll can refer to:

  • Moll (grape), a Spanish grape variety
  • Gun moll, the female companion of an American gangster
  • Moll Flanders, the novel by Daniel Defoe
  • Moll (town), a town located in the county of Highland in Scotland
  • A derogatory term for a girl or woman, especially in Australia
  • In music, the German and Scandinavian term for Minor, cf. Major and minor; from latin mollis- soft.
  • A street term for women, sometimes prostitutes, but not necessarily, who congregate around and interact socially with crime figures or gangsters. This may be the origin of the term gun moll.

Note

A homonym for moll is maul.

Famous people with the last name of Moll


 
Translations: Translations for: Moll

Dansk (Danish)
n. - gangsterpige, luder

Nederlands (Dutch)
gangsterliefje, slet

Français (French)
n. - nana (de gangster) (péj, vulg)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gangsterbraut

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γυναίκα σύντροφος γκάνγκστερ, γκομενάκι, πόρνη

Italiano (Italian)
prostituta, donna di gangster

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mulher de criminoso (f), prostituta (f)

Русский (Russian)
уличная девка

Español (Spanish)
n. - amiga, prostituta

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - gangsterbrud, fnask

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
匪徒的情妇, 女流氓, 女贼, 妓女

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 匪徒的情婦, 女流氓, 女賊, 妓女

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 정부, 매춘부

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 情婦, 売春婦

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) عاهرة, عشيقه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮נערת פושע, פרוצה‬


 
 

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