MOLLY

mollie, molly

(noun) popular aquarium fish

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Proper noun

Molly

A diminutive of Mary or, less often, Margaret.

A female given name from Hebrew.

Noun

Molly (countable and uncountable, plural Mollies)

(North America) The crystalline or powdered form of MDMA.

(historical) A Molly Maguire.

Etymology 1

Noun

molly (countable and uncountable, plural mollies)

(now chiefly Ireland) A woman or girl, especially of low status.

(slang) An effeminate male, a male homosexual.

(slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder.

Synonym: mandy

A mollemoke.

A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)

A bird, the wagtail.

A molly bolt.

Verb

molly (third-person singular simple present mollies, present participle mollying, simple past and past participle mollied)

To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.

Etymology 2

From Mollienesia, an invalid taxonomic name for the genus, influenced by the personal name Molly

Noun

molly (plural mollies)

A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies.

Source: Wiktionary

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Mol"ly, n. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Same as Mollemoke.

Mol"ly, n.

Definition: A pet or colloquial name for Mary. Molly cottontail. (Zoöl.) See Cottontail.

– Molly Maguire (ma*gwir"); pl. Molly Maguires (-gwirz). (a) A member of a secret association formed among the tenantry in Ireland about 1843, principally for the purpose of intimidating law officers and preventing the service of legal writs. Its members disguised themselves in the dress of women. (b) A member of a similar association of Irishmen organized in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, about 1854, for the purpose of intimidating employers and officers of the law, and for avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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