molly : Idioms & Phrases

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hog molly

  • noun widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams
    hog sucker; Hypentelium nigricans.
WordNet

Molly cottontail

  • . (Zoöl.) See Cottontail.
Webster 1913

Molly Maguire

  • pl. Molly Maguires . (a) A member of a secret association formed among the tenantry in Ireland about 1843, principally for the purpose of intimidating law officers and preventing the service of legal writs. Its members disguised themselves in the dress of women. (b) A member of a similar association of Irishmen organized in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, about 1854, for the purpose of intimidating employers and officers of the law, and for avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.
Webster 1913

molly miller

  • noun inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic
    Scartella cristata.
WordNet

molly pitcher

  • noun heroine of the American Revolution who carried water to soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth Court House and took over her husband's gun when he was overcome by heat (1754-1832)
    Mary McCauley; McCauley; Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley.
WordNet

molly-mawk

Mol"ly-mawk` noun
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) See Mollemoke.
Webster 1913