moll – English noun declension

English noun forms of moll

Noun: moll
Singularmoll
Pluralmolls

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [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:]
  • "Makes me feel like a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on. "Better, I imagine, to be a pirate than a pirate's moll," I told her. [1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 72:]
  • 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. [2014 July 31, Frank Rich, “A Distant Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
  • The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine. [1979, Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, page 209:]
  • ‘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. [1995, Debra Adelaide, The Hotel Albatross, page 76:]
  • Gilling first appeared as the biker′s moll Vanessa in Stone (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in Number 96 (1974). [2009, Albert Moran, Errol Vieth, The A to Z of Australian and New Zealand Cinema, page 142:]

Etymology

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

Verbs referencing "moll"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns moll, German Nouns Mulle.