molly-house
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "On the other hand, at least one man believed the story and said that his fellow neighbors had stopped going to Whide's when they heard that he kept a molly-house."
- "While an established molly-house such as Mother Clap's served as many as forty men on any given night and provided a back room for more illicit activities, a molly-house could be as informal as someone's private room in an otherwise 'straight' public house."
- "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.'"