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hog molly

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hog⋅mol⋅ly

  [hawg-mol-ee, hog-]
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–noun, plural -lies, (especially collectively) -ly.
hog sucker.
Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; hog + molly, alter. of mullet

hog sucker

 
–noun
any of several suckers of the genus Hypentelium, inhabiting cool streams of eastern North America and characterized by a broad head that is concave above.
Also called hogmolly.

Origin:
1880–85, Americanism
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hog molly

noun
widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams [syn: hog sucker] 
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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