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moll
noun- an unmarried female companion of a criminal UK, 1823
- Boniface’s moll sat in the driver’s seat of a red Vauxhall Astra. — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 245, 2001
- a promiscuous woman AUSTRALIA
Commonly used as a term of contempt, especially amongst teenagers, implying promiscuity. Commonly pronounced to rhyme with “pole”. - SALLY: She’s already a moll. I can’t corrupt her. — Dorothy Hewett, The Chapel Perilous, p. 50, 1972
- And they are the biggest molls that ever walked the face of the Earth. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 25, 1987
- The boys in my Greehill gang told me I was a scumbag moll and to fuck off out of my territory. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 188, 1987
- a prostitute UK, 1604
Now obsolete in Britain but survives in Australia. - Marry you, an amateur moll like you? Marry a crow who deserted her husband and kid! — Dorothy Hewett, The Chapel Perilous, p. 75, 1972
- Woman of easy virtue and low social status. — Jim McNeil, “The Chocolate Frog” and “The Old Familiar Juice”, 1973
▶ like a moll at a christening
uncomfortably out of place AUSTRALIA- Get out of the rutting way...You’re like a moll at a christening! — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 125, 1945
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