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Moll
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
noun
a female given name.
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| —n | |
| 1. | the female accomplice of a gangster |
| 2. | a prostitute |
| [C17: from Moll, familiar form of Mary] | |
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Word Origin & History
moll
1567, female name, shortened form of Molly, itself familiar for Mary. Used from 1604 for "prostitute;" meaning "companion of a thief" is first recorded 1823. U.S. sense of "a gangster's girlfriend" is from 1923.
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Example sentences
He sleeps with a yakuza's moll who has a dragon tattoo on her back.
In another episode, a gangster and his moll hide there during a police manhunt.
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