Moll-Blood, subs. (old Scots’).—The gallows. For synonyms see Ladder.
1818. Scott, Heart of Midlothian, xx. Three words of your mouth
would give the girl the chance to nick moll blood.
Moll-buzzer, subs. (thieves’).—See quot.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Moll ... Moll-buzzer a thief that
devotes himself to picking the pockets of women.
Mollie, subs. (nautical).—See quot.
1885. Schley and Soley, Rescue of Greely, p. 183. Whenever the
whaling fleet is stopped for a number of days in the ice, it is the
practice for the captains to assemble on board one or other of the
ships to discuss the prospects of the season’s catch. These
interviews are called mollies and are announced by a bucket hoisted
as a signal at the fore-royal mast-head.... Generally speaking a
mollie means making a night of it.
Mollisher, subs. (thieves’).—A thief’s mistress; a moll (q.v.).
1819. Vaux, Memoirs, s.v.
1851–61. H. Mayhew, London Lab. etc., i. p. 472. One old mollesher
... brought out 8lbs. of white rags.
Moll Peatley’s Gig, subs. phr. (old).—Copulation. For synonyms see
Greens and Ride.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Moll-sack, subs. (thieves’).—A lady’s hand-bag; a market basket.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Moll-Thompson’s Mark (or M.T.). subs. phr. (old).—Empty packages are
said to be so marked: as adj. = empty.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Moll-tooler, subs. (thieves’).—A female pick-pocket. For synonyms see
Thieves.
Moll-wire, subs. (thieves’).—See Moll-buzzer. For synonyms see Thieves.
Molly (Miss Molly, or Molly-coddle), subs. (common).—1. An effeminate
person; a milk-sop (q.v.).
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, xxxi. You have been bred up as a
molly-coddle, Pen, and spoilt by the women.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
1860. G. Eliot, Mill on the Floss, ix. Such a thin-legged silly
fellow as his uncle Pellet—a molly-coddle in fact.
1864. Hamilton Aïdé, Mr. & Mrs. Faulconbridge, I. 279. You young
men are such a set of molly-coddles.
1883. Daily News, 2 July, p. 5, col. 2. Attempts are sometimes made
to dismiss as molly-coddles those who protest against the mania for
indiscriminate mountaineering.
2. (old).—A prostitute; a moll (q.v.). For synonyms see Barrack-hack
and Tart.
1719. Durfey, Pills to Purge, i. 5. Town follies and cullies, and
molleys and Dolleys.