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Molly

nome propriosostantivocorrente nei dialoghi

  • Regno Unito//ˈmɒ.li//
  • Stati Uniti//ˈmɑ.li//

A diminutive of Mary or, less often, Margaret.

nome proprio

  1. 1

    A diminutive of Mary or, less often, Margaret.

    "My name's Molly. It is an old-fashioned name, and I was christened Mary. But Papa likes Molly." "That's right. Keep to the good old fashions, dear." "Well, I must say I think Mary is prettier than Molly, and quite as old a name, too," said Mrs Hamley. "I think it was," said Molly, lowering her voice, and dropping her eyes, "because mamma was Mary, and I was called Molly when she lived."

    But Mother and Father and Grandpa and Grandma and Uncle and Aunty couldn't very well call out "Millicent Margaret Amanda" every time they wanted her, so they shortened it to "Milly-Molly-Mandy" which is quite easy to say.

  2. 2

    A female given name from Hebrew.

Etimologia

From Moll, diminutive lambdacism of Mary + -y.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    storicoA Molly Maguire.

  2. 2

    Variante di mollygergoAlternative letter-case form of molly: the crystalline or powdered form of MDMA.

Forme

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Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

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