different between moll vs moil

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• Homophones: mall, maul (some accents)
• Homophone: mole (some accents)

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• mole (Australian, girlfriend of surfie or bikie)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

moll (plural molls)

1. A female companion of a gangster, especially a former or current prostitute.

   • 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.

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, p.209:

     The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.

   • 1995, Debra Adelaide, The Hotel Albatross, p.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, p.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.

Usage notes

(girlfriend of a surfie or bikie): Because Australian pronunciation merges the /?/ and /??/ phonemes before /l/ (both become [o?l]), 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”.

Synonyms

• (surfie's girlfriend): chick

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

moll (not comparable)

1. (music, obsolete) minor; in the minor mode

   A moll, that is, A minor

Translations

Anagrams

• LOML

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m??/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan mòl), from Latin mollis, mollem (compare French mou, Spanish muelle), from earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *(h?)moldus (“soft, weak”), from *mel- (“soft, weak, tender”).

Adjective

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

1. moist
2. weak

Derived terms

• aiguamoll
• bocamoll
• remollir

Related terms

• mullar

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Vulgar Latin *medullum (compare Occitan mesolh, Spanish meollo, Portuguese miolo, Italian midollo), from Latin medulla, and probably influenced by Etymology 1. Doublet of the borrowing medul·la.

Noun

moll m (uncountable)

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

Etymology 3

From Latin mullus (“red mullet”).

Noun

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

From Latin moles.

Noun

moll m (plural molls)

1. quay, jetty
2. breakwater

Further reading

• “moll” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “moll” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “moll” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

References

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mol]
• Hyphenation: moll

Noun

moll n

1. (music) minor

Declension

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mol?]
• Hyphenation: moll
• Rhymes: -ol?

Adjective

moll (not comparable)

1. (music) minor

Declension

Noun

moll (plural mollok)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• moll in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From Latin mollis (“soft, mild”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l?/

  Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

moll m (genitive singular molls, nominative plural mollar)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• dúr

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

moll m (genitive singular moill, nominative plural mollta)

1. heap; large amount, large number

Declension

• Alternative plurals: molltra, molltracha

Derived terms

• moll bréag (“pack of lies”)

Mutation

References

• "moll" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “moil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mul”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Manx

Etymology 1

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

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

1. fool, baffle, foil, beguile, cajole, captivate, deceive, bluff, trick
2. disappoint
3. impose
4. be mistaken

Derived terms

• molteyr (“deceiver, charlatan, duper, fraud, cheat, con man, impostor”)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

moll m (genitive singular moll)

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

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

moll

1. Alternative form of molle (“rubbish”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Moll, from Latin mollis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l?/

Noun

moll m (definite singular mollen, uncountable)

1. (music) minor (scale or key)

Antonyms

• dur

References

• “moll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l/, [m?l?]

Noun

moll (indeclinable)

1. (music) minor scale

Derived terms

• a-moll

References

• moll in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/

Adjective

moll f

1. feminine singular of mwll

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??l/
• Homophone: mohel
• Rhymes: -??l

Alternative forms

• moile, moyle

Etymology 1

From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molli?, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).

Verb

moil (third-person singular simple present moils, present participle moiling, simple past and past participle moiled)

1. To toil, to work hard.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Plantations":

     Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things..

   • 1693, John Dryden, Juvenal and Persius, "Tenth Satire of Juvenal":

     Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.

   • 1849, Charles Kingsley, "Alton Locke's Song":

     Why for sluggards cark and moil?
2. (intransitive) To churn continually; to swirl.
   • 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Chapter 23:

     A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.

3. (Britain, transitive) To defile or dirty.

Noun

moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)

1. Hard work.
   • 1928, Harry Lauder, Roamin' in the Gloamin', Chapter VII:

     I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil and moil of a collier's existence.

2. Confusion, turmoil.
   • 1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, Part I, Chapter 5:

     Croft no longer saw anything clearly; he could not have said at that moment where his hands ended and the machine gun began; he was lost in a vast moil of noise out of which individual screams and shouts etched in his mind for an instant.

3. A spot; a defilement.

Synonyms

• (hard work): labour, labor; toil; work

Translations

Etymology 2

Of unclear origin; possibly from French meule or Hebrew ????? (mohel, “ritual circumciser”), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

Noun

moil (plural moils)

1. (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
2. (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
3. (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

Synonyms

• (excess glass): overblow (blow molding), scrap

See also

• gather
• mold seam
• pontil mark

Anagrams

• Milo, OIML, limo, milo

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *?mw?j? (“bear”). Cognate with Thai ??? (m?i), Northern Thai ????, Lao ?? (m?), Lü ?? (?ii), Tai Dam ??, Shan ?? (m?i), Ahom ???????? (mii), Zhuang mui, Nong Zhuang mue. Compare Old Chinese ? (OC *me?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?i??/

Noun

moil

1. bear (animal)

Synonyms

• duezmoil

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

moil m

1. genitive of mol