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Dictionary: 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.]


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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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pronunciation

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).

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Moll can refer to:

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As a name

  • An abbreviated form of the name Molly
  • Moll Flanders, a novel by Daniel Defoe, taking its title from the main character
  • Moll Hackabout, the unfortunate prostitute portrayed in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress
  • Moll Davis, an actress and mistress to King Charles II of England
  • Moll, a character in the 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein

As slang term

  • Gun moll, the female companion of an American gangster
  • Moll (slang), in Australia and New Zealand, any woman with loose sexual morals, a bitch, a slut, a prositute or a girlfriend of a surfie or biker

Other uses

Derived from from latin mollis meaning "soft":

  • Moll (grape), a Spanish grape variety
  • In music, the German, Hungarian, Polish, Czech and Scandinavian term for Minor, cf. Major and minor

Famous people with the last name of Moll


Translations: Moll
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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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