subs. (common).—1. A girl; and (2) a female companion. [From MOLLESHER (q.v.).]
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. MOLLS—are the female companions of low thieves, at bed, board, and business.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
3. (common).—A prostitute; a MOLLY (q.v.). For synonyms, see BARRACK-HACK and TART.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1877. W. H. THOMSON, Five Years’ Penal Servitude, iii. 245. She went up to some of the swell streets at the West End to see another MOLL, a pall of hers.
1887. W. E. HENLEY, Villon’s Good-Night.
| Likewise you MOLLS that flash your bubs | |
| For swells to spot and stand you sam. |
MOLLED UP, adj. phr. (thieves’).—1. See quot.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 336. Furnished cribs let to needys (nightly lodgers) that are MOLLED UP (that is to say, associated with women in the sleeping rooms).
2. (colloquial).—Arm-in-arm with, or accompanied by, a woman.
