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mollydook
English
Noun
mollydook (plural mollydooks)
- Alternative form of mollydooker
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mollydooker
English
Alternative forms
- mollydook
- molly-dooker
- mollyduker
Etymology
Probably from molly (“(dialect) fussy man who does women's work”) + dook (variant of duke (“fist”)) + -er.
Noun
mollydooker (plural mollydookers)
- (Britain, Australia, slang) A left-handed person.
- 2003, Joy Dettman, Henry?s Daughter, page 45:
- ‘G?day,’ Martin says. ‘So who?s who?’ They don?t answer him. Maybe they can?t talk. ‘I reckon you?re Alan, the mollydooker, and you?re Eddy. Am I right?’ They cringe, don?t know what a ‘mollydooker’ is.
- 2004, John Leonard Spencer, Waving Goodbye To A Thousand Flies, page 90:
- I thought to myself how remarkably young Emma looked to be twice Penny?s age, which would make her 35 years of age, and a Mollydooker, Emma was (left handed).
- 2005 January 10, Ian Chappell, Inside Cricket, reprinted 2006, A Golden Age, unnumbered page:
- In addition to those duels favouring Australia, Michael Kasprowicz was dynamite against left-handers in 2004 (forty-two per cent of his victims) and England's top three are all mollydukers.
- 2007, Barry Heard, The View from Connor's Hill: A Memoir, Large print (16 point) edition, page xi:
- There is no doubt he was one of the best shearers I?d ever picked up for when I used to rouseabout. But he was a bloody mollydooker—a left-hander—and it was difficult to pick up his fleece when he finished shearing his sheep.
- 2009, Bruce Pascoe, Bloke, unnumbered page:
- The fish shed needed drones to do the feeding, kids like Scrubber Higgins – mollydook surfer, fair to average half-forward flanker, Xbox champion, unemployed before becoming an instant aquaculture expert.
- 2011, Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home, page 278:
- “Is it harder for a pilot, being left-handed?” she asked, as if adding to an existing conversation.
- He glanced down at his left arm, flexed his fingers, now free of plaster. “Been a mollydooker all my life. Reckon I don?t know any different.”
- 2003, Joy Dettman, Henry?s Daughter, page 45:
Synonyms
- southpaw
References
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