Moll vs Mall - What's the difference?
moll | mall |
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
A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
A heavy blow.
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall.
A place where the game of mall was played.
A public walk; a level shaded walk.
* Southey
(US, Australia) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
* 2002 , Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t ,
An enclosed shopping centre.
* 2004 , Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well ,
* 2010 , Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies ,
To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.
To build up with the development of shopping malls.
(informal) To shop at the mall.
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As nouns the difference between moll and mall
is that moll is a female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute while mall is a large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.As an adjective moll
is minor; in the minor mode.As a proper noun Moll
is {{cx|archaic|lang=en}} A pet name for Mary.As a verb mall is
to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.moll
English
Etymology 1
From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).Alternative forms
* mole (qualifier)Noun
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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
mall
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Addison)
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- Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall .
- pedestrian mall
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- America?s first pedestrianized shopping mall' opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian ' malls , it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
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- Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America?s enclosed shopping malls .
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- In addition to Web site kits, ISPs, and businesses that specialize in Web hosting, online shopping malls provide another form of Web hosting.