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moll

See also: Moll, and møll

English

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Etymology 1

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

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  • mole (Australian, girlfriend of surfie or bikie)

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Noun

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moll (plural molls)

  1. A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.
    • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
      The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. 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.
    • 2014 July 31, Frank Rich, “A Distant Mirror”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.
  2. A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
  3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
  4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a bikie.
    • 1979, Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, page 209:
      The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.
    • 1995, Debra Adelaide, The Hotel Albatross, page 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, page 142:
      Gilling first appeared as the biker′s moll Vanessa in Stone (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in Number 96 (1974).
  5. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
  6. (slang) A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.
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(girlfriend of a surfie or bikie): Because Australian pronunciation merges the /ɒ/ and /əʊ/ phonemes before /l/ (both become [oʊl]), this word is very commonly spelt mole in Australia, probably by contamination with mole (“sneaky person”). 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”.

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  • (surfie's girlfriend): chick
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Etymology 2

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From German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft, tender, elegiac”). Compare molle (“flat (in music)”).

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål moll.

Adjective

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moll (not comparable)

  1. (music, obsolete) minor; in the minor key.[1]
    Bach's Gavotte in B Moll
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  1. ^ “moll”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Catalan moyll, from Latin mollem, from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dus (“soft, weak”), from *(s)meld- (“soft, weak, tender”). Compare Occitan mòl, French mou, Spanish muelle.

Adjective

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moll (feminine molla, masculine plural molls, feminine plural molles)

  1. moist, wet
  2. weak
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old Catalan moyl, from Vulgar Latin *medullum, analogically derived from Latin medulla,[1] and probably influenced by Etymology 1. Compare Occitan mesolh, Spanish meollo, Portuguese miolo. Doublet of molla and medul·la, which were, respectively, inherited and borrowed from Latin.

Noun

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moll m (uncountable)

  1. marrow, as in bone marrow
  2. the soft part of a fruit

Etymology 3

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Inherited from Latin mullus (“red mullet”).

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moll m (plural molls)

  1. several species of fish
    moll de fang — Mullus barbatus
    moll de roca — Mullus surmuletus
    moll reial — Apogon imberbis

Etymology 4

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Inherited from Latin moles.

Noun

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moll m (plural molls)

  1. quay, jetty
  2. breakwater
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  • → Portuguese: molhe
  • → Spanish: muelle

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References

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  1. ^ “moll”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

Czech

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmol]
  • Hyphenation: moll

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moll n (indeclinable)

  1. (music) minor

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Moll, from Latin mollis (“soft”).[1]

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moll (not comparable)

  1. (music) minor
    moll akkord ― minor chord

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative moll mollok
accusative mollt mollokat
dative mollnak molloknak
instrumental mollal mollokkal
causal-final mollért mollokért
translative mollá mollokká
terminative mollig mollokig
essive-formal mollként mollokként
essive-modal — —
inessive mollban mollokban
superessive mollon mollokon
adessive mollnál molloknál
illative mollba mollokba
sublative mollra mollokra
allative mollhoz mollokhoz
elative mollból mollokból
delative mollról mollokról
ablative molltól molloktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		mollé molloké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		molléi mollokéi

Noun

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moll (plural mollok)

  1. (music) minor (scale or key)
    a-moll ― A minor

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative moll mollok
accusative mollt mollokat
dative mollnak molloknak
instrumental mollal mollokkal
causal-final mollért mollokért
translative mollá mollokká
terminative mollig mollokig
essive-formal mollként mollokként
essive-modal — —
inessive mollban mollokban
superessive mollon mollokon
adessive mollnál molloknál
illative mollba mollokba
sublative mollra mollokra
allative mollhoz mollokhoz
elative mollból mollokból
delative mollról mollokról
ablative molltól molloktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		mollé molloké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		molléi mollokéi
Possessive forms of moll
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mollom molljaim
2nd person sing. mollod molljaid
3rd person sing. mollja molljai
1st person plural mollunk molljaink
2nd person plural mollotok molljaitok
3rd person plural molljuk molljaik

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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ moll in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

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  • moll in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Latin mollis (“soft, mild”).

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Noun

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moll m (genitive singular molls, nominative plural mollar)

  1. (music) minor (scale or key)

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    Declension of moll
m-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative moll mollinn mollar mollarnir
accusative moll mollinn molla mollana
dative molli / moll mollinum / mollnum mollum mollunum
genitive molls mollsins molla mollanna

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish moil (“a mass, heap, pile”), mul m (“a globular mass, heap, lump”).

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Noun

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moll m (genitive singular moill, nominative plural mollta)

  1. heap; large amount, large number

Declension

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Declension of moll

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative moll mollta
Vocative a mhoill a mhollta
Genitive moill mollta
Dative moll mollta

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an moll na mollta
Genitive an mhoill na mollta
Dative leis an moll

don mholl

leis na mollta

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
moll mholl not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Manx

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Irish mellaid (“to deceive, beguile, seduce”), a denominative verb from Old Irish meld (“pleasant, delightful”). Cognate with Irish meall and Scottish Gaelic meall.

Verb

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moll (past voll, future independent mollee, verbal noun molley, past participle mollit)

  1. fool, baffle, foil, beguile, cajole, captivate, deceive, bluff, trick
    Mollee y molteyr oo my oddys eh. ― The deceiver will deceive you if he can.
  2. disappoint
    V'eh mollit nagh daink ee. ― He was disappointed that she did not come.
  3. impose
  4. be mistaken
    Ayns shen t'ou mollit. ― That is where you are mistaken.
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  • molteyr (“deceiver, charlatan, duper, fraud, cheat, con man, impostor”)

Etymology 2

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From Old Irish moil (“a mass, heap, pile”), mul m (“a globular mass, heap, lump”).

Noun

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moll m (genitive singular moll)

  1. mass, pile, heap, pack
  2. cluster, gathering, collection, huddle
  3. nave

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
moll voll unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English

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moll

  1. Alternative form of molle (“rubbish”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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From German Moll (“minor”), from Medieval Latin molle, of Latin mollis (“soft”), from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Italic *moldus, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥dus (“soft, weak”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“soft, weak, tender”).

Cognate with English moll, Icelandic moll, Czech moll, Hungarian moll and Swedish moll.

Noun

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moll m (definite singular mollen, indefinite plural moller, definite plural mollene)

  1. (music) a minor scale (having intervals of a semitone between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth, and the seventh and eighth)
    Antonym: dur
    ren moll ― Aeolian mode
    • 1907, Alexander Kielland, Samlede værker I (Mindeutgave), page 6:
      han vidste, at Hans blot kunde tre akkompagnementer; et i moll og to i dur
      he knew that Hans could only do three accompaniments; one in minor and two in major
    • 2012, Eivind Buene, Allsang:
      musikken skifter fra moll til dur, og trombonene kommer inn over de lange, blanke strykeakkordene
      the music changes from minor to major, and the trombones come in over the long, shiny string chords
  2. (figuratively) a minor (timbre, that in classical and romantic music, can evoke or express melancholy)
    Antonym: dur
    • 1852, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter I, page 349:
      [løven] i moll maa klynke, som brølte før i dur
      [the lion] in minor must whine, which roared before in major
    • 1926, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Samlede Digte I, page 169:
      gaa til moll fra dur
      go to minor from major
    • 1949, Johan Borgen, Jenny og påfuglen, page 108:
      kollisjoner mellom duren fra de inntrengende og stuens moll
      collisions between the drone from the intruders and the living room minor

Etymology 2

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From English mull, from Hindi.

Noun

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moll m or n (definite singular mollen or mollet, indefinite plural moller or moll, definite plural mollene or molla)

  1. (textiles) mull (a thin, soft muslin)
    Coordinate term: linon

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From German Moll, from Latin mollis.

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moll m (definite singular mollen, uncountable)

  1. (music) minor (scale or key)

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Swedish

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moll (indeclinable)

  1. (music) minor scale

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Welsh

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moll f

  1. feminine singular of mwll

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Mutated forms of moll
radical soft nasal aspirate
moll foll unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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