Moll vs Loll - What's the difference?
moll | loll |
A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. Most lone wolves had a moll' at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a ' moll , not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female .
A girlfriend of a bikie.
*1979 , Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978 ,
*:The bikies ‘molls ’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.
*1995 , (Debra Adelaide), The Hotel Albatross ,
*:‘Oh God!’ groans Julie who once was a bikie moll back in the early seventies. ‘Hope it?s no one I know.’ But the Machismos turn out to be based on a New Zealand gang, which assembled in Australia after her time.
*2009 , Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema ,
*:Gilling first appeared as the biker?s moll' Vanessa in '''''Stone'' (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in ''Number 96 (1974).
A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense .
(music, obsolete) minor; in the minor mode
To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
* Dryden
* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
* Dryden
To let the tongue hang from the mouth in this way.
As a proper noun moll
is a pet name for mary.As a verb loll is
to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.moll
English
Etymology 1
From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).Alternative forms
* mole (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)p.209:
p.76:
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Usage notes
(girlfriend of a surfie or bikie) Because Australian pronunciation merges the /?/ and /??/ phonemes before /l/ (both become [o?l]), this word is very commonly spelt mole'' in Australia, probably by contamination with . Indeed, the Australian Oxford dictionary does not list the Australian meaning of the term under the headword ''moll'', but only under ''mole'', although it does recognise that ''mole'' in this sense is “probably” a mere “variant of ''moll ”.Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) (lena) .Adjective
(-)- A moll , that is, A minor
loll
English
Verb
(en verb)- Void of care, he lolls supine in state.
- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
- The triple porter of the Stygian seat, / With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet.
- The ox stood lolling in the furrow.
