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molly

nounverbnounnounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈmɒli//
  • United States//ˈmɑli//

A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.

noun

  1. 1

    A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.

  2. 2

    slanga male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.

  3. 3

    slangPure MDMA powder.

    So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party / Dancing with Molly / Doing whatever we want

    Well…you want to do these together then? Pure Molly…

    Was pissed now. But also hyper-lit, euphoric almost, given the adrenaline plus molly.

  4. 4

    A mollemoke.

    So the petrels called to the mollys: but they were so busy and greedy, gobbling and pecking and spluttering and fighting over the blubber, that they did not take the least notice.

  5. 5

    A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)

  6. 6

    A bird, the wagtail.

  7. 7

    A molly bolt.

Etymology

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.

verb

  1. 1

    To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.

    I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.

    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.'

    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

noun

  1. 1

    A fish of the genus Poecilia, excluding Endler's livebearers and guppies.

Etymology

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

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of maliAlternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).

noun

  1. 1

    slangA Molotov cocktail.

    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.

Etymology

Clipping of Molotov.

Forms

plural
mollies
past tense
mollied
past participle
mollied
present participle
mollying
third person singular
mollies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).