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countable and uncountable, plural mollies
(now chiefly Ireland) A woman or girl, especially of low status. examples
(slang) An effeminate male, a male homosexual.
(slang, uncountable) Pure MDMA powder. quotations
So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party / Dancing with Molly / Doing whatever we want
2013, “We Can’t Stop”, in Bangerz, performed by Miley Cyrus
A mollemoke. examples
A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed) examples
A bird, the wagtail. examples
A molly bolt. examples
third-person singular simple present mollies, present participle mollying, simple past and past participle mollied
To engage in (male) homosexual activity with. quotations examples
I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.
1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79
On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.'
2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain
It is a case of the biter bit, or the molly-taker mollied, but it is also an interesting example of the ways in which the criminal underworld and sexual underworld met in eighteenth-century London
2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
plural mollies
A fish of the genus Poecilia, except for those known as guppies. examples
(India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”). examples