Etymology From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.
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To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.
I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79:
On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.'2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain:
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It is a case of the biter bit, or the molly-taker mollied, but it is also an interesting example of the ways in which the criminal underworld and sexual underworld met in eighteenth-century London2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day:
Etymology From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.
So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party / Dancing with Molly / Doing whatever we want2013, “We Can't Stop”, in Bangerz, performed by Miley Cyrus:
Well…you want to do these together then? Pure Molly…2015 June 24, Sam Esmail, “eps1.0_hellofriend.mov”, in Mr. Robot, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Shayla:
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Was pissed now. But also hyper-lit, euphoric almost, given the adrenaline plus molly.2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:
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A mollemoke.
So the petrels called to the mollys: but they were so busy and greedy, gobbling and pecking and spluttering and fighting over the blubber, that they did not take the least notice.1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit.2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022: