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Molly

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He’s a regular Molly. Said of a man or big boy who betties or interferes with women’s work, such as kitchen business, dressmaking, personal decoration, and so on.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Mohun
Mohyronus (Edricius)
Moiré Antique (French)
Mokanna
Molière
Molinism
Moll (Kentish)
Moll Cutpurse
Moll Flanders
Moll Thomson’s Mark
Molly
Molly Coddle (A)
Molly Maguires
Molly Mog
Molmutius
Moloch
Moly
Mome (French)
Momiers (French, men of mummery)
Mommur
Momus