Molly

Definition: Molly

Molly

Noun

1. Popular aquarium fish.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Molly" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a sea of bitterness", "a rebelliousness", "a wished for child", "loved".

Date "molly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Molly

Crosswords: Molly

Hungarian (Moll).

Yes, and there will be one less on this boat if you don't shut that hole in your face In the actual event, Molly Brown was going to throw Hutchins overboard (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

I love you Molly. I always have (Ghost; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin)

Molly sure know what she was doin' when she made this place red. The blood don't show (The Unsinkable Molly Brown; writing credit: Helen Deutsch; Richard Morris)

And how is the young Josh and the lovely Molly, they're always in my thoughts (Red Dragon; writing credit: Ted Tally)

Lovin' Molly (1974)

Molly and Lawless John (1972)

The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)

Fibber McGee and Molly (1959)

Molly Grows Up (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Raised on Radio: In Quest of the Lone Ranger, Jack Benny, Amos 'N' Andy, the Shadow, Mary Noble, the Great Gildersleeve, Fibber McGee and Molly, bill (reference)

• Molly Brant: A Legacy of Her Own (reference)

• The American Girls Short Stories, Set 2: Molly and the Movie Star, Samantha Saves the Wedding, Addy's Little Brother,Kirsten and the New Girl, Again, (reference)

• Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon (reference)

• Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty (Dear America) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Big Comfy Couch - Picky Eaters/Naptime for Molly (reference)

• Molly Moo Cow W/Friends Save T (reference)

• The Unsinkable Molly Brown (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Star-Spangled Molly (reference)

• The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1960 Original Broadway Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sylvia Baca and Molly McUsic at Sage Country Inn meeting place. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig.

Molly Miller. Credit: Library of Congress.

Molly Bawn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lottie and Dottie. It was like this Lottie, Molly and me and Milly all got into the same car ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Y'know Molly, I'd be willin' to pay a hundred thousand dollars to be able to do that. Credit: Library of Congress.

Molly Pitcher Brigade holds drill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Molly Scott, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, with Cisco Houston, both playing guitars. Credit: Library of Congress.

Molly Bawn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Molly the manicure girl. "Exercise is making a new girl out of me, Molly ...". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "molly": hog molly ♦ Molly cottontail ♦ Molly Maguire ♦ Molly Miller. Additional references.

Beginning with "molly": molly-coddle, molly-coddled, molly-coddling, molly-guard, Molly-mawk.

Containing "molly": Milly-molly-mandy.

Albanian

Vajzë E Re, Prostitutë (bawd, call girl, drab, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, Moll, night hawk, night walker, prostitute, streetwalker, tramp, trollop, trull), Djalë I Përkëdhelur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخنث (effeminate, molly-coddle, sissy, womanish, womanly), ‏لاطف (be nice, caress, comply, fondle, humor, humour, indulge, molly-coddle, pet, treat well, treat with kindness), ‏رجل مخنث (molly-coddle), ‏دلل (cherish, cocker, coddle, cosset, dandle, fondle, indulge, molly-coddle, mother, pamper, pet, spoil, spoon feed), ‏دلع (make a pet of smb., molly-coddle, mother, pet). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Женствен Мъж (Nancy), Безхарактерен Мъж, Баба (Goody, Grandmamma). (various references)

Czech

mazánek (molly-coddle), zhýèkanec (molly-coddle). (various references)

Greek 

Υποκοριστικό Τησ Mary. (various references)

Hungarian

Marika. (various references)

Indonesian

memanjakan (cosher, indulge, molly-coddle, pamper, spoil). (various references)

Pig Latin

ollymay.(various references)

Portuguese

maricas (home-bird, milksop, molly-coddle, sissy), homem ou rapaz efeminado. (various references)

Russian 

Проститутка, Тряпка, Большая Корзина. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mekušac (cissy, milksop, mollusc, mollusk, mollycoddle, molly-coddle, softy). (various references)

Spanish

Muchacha (colleen, gal, girl, lass, lassie, wench), Prostituta (call girl, harlot, hooker, Moll, night walker, prostitute, quail, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, whore). (various references)

Turkish

Muhallebi Çocuğu, Hanım Evlâdı (mollycoddle, mother's darling, sissy, softy). (various references)

Ukrainian

Повія (Cyprian, Moll, Tootsie), Зніжений Юнак. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người đàn ông ẻo lả (molly-coddle), đĩ (harlot, strumpet, trollop, trull, whore). (various references)

Welsh

Mali. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "molly": mollycoddle, mollycoddled, mollycoddler, mollycoddlers, mollycoddles, mollycoddling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Molly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amilly, mally, Mallya, Melili, Melli, milly, Moelln, Moily, molely, moley, moli, molla, mollied, molloys, Mollys, molty, Molwyn, Molye, mooli, mooly, Moorly, motly, mouli, Mouly, mozley, Mulley, Mulloy, muly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: moll, moly.

-2 letters: mol, yom.

-3 letters: lo, mo, my, om, oy, yo.

+2 letters: allonym, modally, mollify, morally.

+3 letters: allogamy, allonyms, amorally, comelily, formally, gloomily, lissomly, loyalism, mellowly, molality, moltenly, mortally, mullocky, normally, phyllome, seldomly, solemnly, tomalley.

+4 letters: allometry, collyrium, comically, complexly, doomfully, emulously, fulsomely, immorally, limnology, lissomely, loyalisms, lysosomal, mesophyll, modularly, moilingly, nominally, ohmically, optimally, phyllomes, syllogism, symbolled, tomalleys, welcomely.

+5 letters: abnormally, amylolytic, amyloplast, armorially, atomically, binomially, collyriums, communally, completely, cosmically, employable, episomally, formlessly, gladsomely, hormonally, hyaloplasm, immortally, impolitely, informally, lonesomely, longsomely, luminously, malacology, manifoldly, melancholy, memorially, mesophylls, microphyll, mollifying, monaurally, mosaically, mournfully, movelessly, myeloblast, myopically, osmolality, phyllodium, plasmolyze, polynomial, proximally, syllogisms, symbolical, symbolling, temporally, toilsomely.