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Mull vs Moll - What's the difference?

mull | moll |

As a noun mull

is trash, garbage, refuse, waste.

As a proper noun moll is

a pet name for mary.

mull

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(en verb)
  • To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
    • to mull a thought or a problem
    he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
  • * 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
  • To powder; to pulverize.
  • To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
  • To heat and spice something, such as wine.
  • To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
  • To dull or stupefy.
    • Derived terms
    * mulled wine, mulled cider

    Noun

  • A thin, soft muslin.
  • (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
  • A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
  • The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
  • An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A promontory.
    • the Mull of Kintyre
  • A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

    • Etymology 3

    Probably related to mould.

    Noun

    (-)
  • dirt; rubbish
    • (Gower)
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    moll

    English

    Etymology 1

    From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).

    Alternative forms

    * mole (qualifier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
  • *
  • *: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 , p.209:
  • *:The bikies ‘molls ’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.
  • *1995 , (Debra Adelaide), The Hotel Albatross , p.76:
  • *:‘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 , p.142:
  • *: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 .
    • 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 ”.
    Synonyms
    * (sense, surfie's girlfriend) chick

    Etymology 2

    (etyl), from (etyl) (lena) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (music, obsolete) minor; in the minor mode
    • A moll , that is, A minor
    (Webster 1913) ----