moll

Alternative forms

• mole (Australian, girlfriend of surfie or bikie)

Pronunciation

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Noun

moll (plural molls)

1. A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

   • 2014 July 31, Frank Rich, “A Distant Mirror”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.

2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a bikie.
   • 1979, Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, page 209:

     The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.

   • 1995, Debra Adelaide, The Hotel Albatross, page 76:

     ‘Oh God!’ groans Julie who once was a bikie moll back in the early seventies. ‘Hope it′s no one I know.’ But the Machismos turn out to be based on a New Zealand gang, which assembled in Australia after her time.

   • 2009, Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema, page 142:

     Gilling first appeared as the biker′s moll Vanessa in Stone (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in Number 96 (1974).

5. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
6. (slang) A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.

Adjective

moll (not comparable)

1. (music, obsolete) minor; in the minor key.^[1]

   Bach's Gavotte in B Moll

Adjective

moll (feminine molla, masculine plural molls, feminine plural molles)

1. moist, wet
2. weak

Noun

moll m (uncountable)

1. marrow, as in bone marrow
2. the soft part of a fruit

Noun

moll m (plural molls)

1. several species of fish

   moll de fang — Mullus barbatus

   moll de roca — Mullus surmuletus

   moll reial — Apogon imberbis

Noun

moll m (plural molls)

1. quay, jetty
2. breakwater

Declension

Declension

Derived terms

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• dúr

Declension

• Alternative plurals: molltra, molltracha

Derived terms

• moll bréag (“pack of lies”)

Verb

moll (past voll, future independent mollee, verbal noun molley, past participle mollit)

1. fool, baffle, foil, beguile, cajole, captivate, deceive, bluff, trick

   Mollee y molteyr oo my oddys eh. ― The deceiver will deceive you if he can.

2. disappoint

   V'eh mollit nagh daink ee. ― He was disappointed that she did not come.

3. impose
4. be mistaken

   Ayns shen t'ou mollit. ― That is where you are mistaken.

Noun

moll m (genitive singular moll)

1. mass, pile, heap, pack
2. cluster, gathering, collection, huddle
3. nave

Noun

moll m (definite singular mollen, indefinite plural moller, definite plural mollene)

1. (music) a minor scale (having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth)

   Antonym: dur

   ren moll ― Aeolian mode

   • 1907, Alexander Kielland, Samlede værker I (Mindeutgave), page 6:

     han vidste, at Hans blot kunde tre akkompagnementer; et i moll og to i dur

     he knew that Hans could only do three accompaniments; one in minor and two in major

   • 2012, Eivind Buene, Allsang:

     musikken skifter fra moll til dur, og trombonene kommer inn over de lange, blanke strykeakkordene

     the music changes from minor to major, and the trombones come in over the long, shiny string chords

2. (figuratively) a minor (timbre, that in classical and romantic music, can evoke or express melancholy)

   Antonym: dur

   • 1852, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter I, page 349:

     [løven] i moll maa klynke, som brølte før i dur

     [the lion] in minor must whine, which roared before in major

   • 1926, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Samlede Digte I, page 169:

     gaa til moll fra dur

     go to minor from major

   • 1949, Johan Borgen, Jenny og påfuglen, page 108:

     kollisjoner mellom duren fra de inntrengende og stuens moll

     collisions between the drone from the intruders and the living room minor

Noun

moll m or n (definite singular mollen or mollet, indefinite plural moller or moll, definite plural mollene or molla)

1. (textiles) mull (a thin, soft muslin)

   Coordinate term: linon

Antonyms

• dur

Derived terms

• a-moll