Moll vs Toll - What's the difference?
moll | toll |
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
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
(label) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
(label) A tollbooth.
A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
(label) To impose a fee for the use of.
(label) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
* Shakespeare
(label) To take as a toll.
To pay a toll or tallage.
(label) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
(label) To summon by ringing a bell.
* Dryden
(label) To announce by tolling.
* Beattie
To draw; pull; tug; drag.
(label) To tear in pieces.
(label) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
(label) To lure with bait (especially, fish and animals).
As a proper noun moll
is a pet name for mary.As a noun toll is
custom (duty collected at the borders).moll
English
Etymology 1
From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).Alternative forms
* mole (qualifier)Noun
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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
toll
English
(wikipedia toll)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), (m), . Alternate etymology derives (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* death toll * toll road * toll bridge * toll booth * * tollgateReferences
Verb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)
