molly

plural mollies

1. IrelandcountableuncountableA woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.

   Synonyms: moll

2. countableslanguncountablea male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
3. slanguncountablePure MDMA powder.

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

   2015 June 24, Sam Esmail, “eps1.0_hellofriend.mov”, in Mr. Robot, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Shayla

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

   2013, “We Can't Stop”, in Bangerz, performed by Miley Cyrus

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

   2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN

   Synonyms: mandy

4. countableuncountableA 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.

   1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

5. countableuncountableA female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
6. countableuncountableA bird, the wagtail.
7. countableuncountableA molly bolt.

present singular third person mollies · participle present mollying · participle past mollied · past mollied

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.

   1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79

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   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.'

   2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain

   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

   2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

plural mollies

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

plural mollies

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

plural mollies

1. slangvideo gamesA 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.

   2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022

alternative Mollie

1. A diminutive of Mary or, less often, Margaret.

   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.

   1928, Joyce Lankester Brisley, chapter 1, in Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories

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   "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."

   1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 6, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC

2. A female given name from Hebrew.

plural Mollies · alternative Mollie

1. CanadaUSslanguncountableAlternative letter-case form of molly: the crystalline or powdered form of MDMA.
2. countablehistoricaluncountableA Molly Maguire.