moll
/mɒl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute.
noun
A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
noun
Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Derogatory; Slang
noun
A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Slang
noun
A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.
Slang
Example Sentences
- "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."
- ""Makes me feel like a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on. "Better, I imagine, to be a pirate than a pirate's moll," I told her."
- "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."
- "The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine."
- "‘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."
- "Gilling first appeared as the biker′s moll Vanessa in Stone (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in Number 96 (1974)."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Moll, mollis