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語源 1

From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.

名詞

molly (countable and uncountable, plural mollies)

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

   Synonym: moll

2. (slang) a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
3. (slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder.

   Synonym: mandy

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. A mollemoke.
   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:

     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.

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

派生語

• hairy molly
• mollycoddle
• mollydooker, molly-dooker, mollyduker
• molly-guard
• molly-handed
• molly house
• mollynogging

動詞

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

1. To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.
   • 1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79:

     I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.

   • 2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain:

     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.'

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

     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

参考

• moll

語源 2

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

名詞

molly (plural mollies)

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

派生語

• molly miller

参考

• guppy

語源 3

名詞

molly (plural mollies)

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

参考

語源 4

Clipping of Molotov.

名詞

molly (plural mollies)

1. (video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.
   • 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 August 2022:

     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.

参照

Further reading

• “molly n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present