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Molly-coddle. 33 1 MO locker.<br />
An effeminate person; a MILK-SOP<br />
(q.v.).<br />
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.<br />
1849. THACKERAY, PendentliS, XXXi.<br />
You have been bred up as a MOLLY-<br />
CODDLE, Pen, and spoilt by the women.<br />
1859. MATSELL, Vocabulum, s.v.<br />
1860. G. ELIOT, AIX on the Floss,<br />
ix. Such a thin-legged silly fellow as his<br />
uncle Pellet—a MOLLY-CODDLE in fact.<br />
1864. HAMILTON AVDi, Mr. (57.<br />
Mrs. Faulconbridge, I. 279. You young<br />
men are such a set of MOLLY-CODDLES.<br />
1883. Daily News, 2 July, p. 5,<br />
col. 2. Attempts are sometimes made<br />
to dismiss as MOLLY-CODDLES those who<br />
protest against the mania for indiscriminate<br />
mountaineering.<br />
2. (old).—A prostitute ; a MOLL<br />
(q.v.). For synonyms see BAR-<br />
RACK-HACK and TART.<br />
1719. DURFEY, Pills to Purge, i.<br />
5. Town follies and cullies, and MOLLEYS<br />
and Dolleys.<br />
3. (old).—A sodomite; a MARY-<br />
ANN (q.v.).—GRosE (1785).<br />
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.<br />
4. (old).—A country wench.<br />
MOLLY-CODDLE, verb. (common).—<br />
To pamper. Also MODDLEY-COD-<br />
DLEY.<br />
1870. DICKENS, Mystery of Edwin<br />
Brood, ii. Don't MODDLEY-CODDLEY,<br />
there's a good fellow. I like anything<br />
better than being MODDLEY-CODDLEYED.<br />
1895. Referee, 29 Dec., p. 5, col.<br />
2. Who treats Of MOLLY-CODDLING<br />
regulations.<br />
MOLLY-CODDLISH, adj. (common).—<br />
Effeminate. Also 1\10LLYIsH.<br />
1801. DIBDIN, The Frisk. <strong>Jack</strong> at<br />
the Opera.' If it wan't for the petticoat<br />
gear, With their squeaking so MOLLYISH,<br />
tender, and soft, One should scarcely<br />
know ma'am from mounseer.<br />
1883. Referee, 25 March, 7, 4. I<br />
daresay to make even such remarks as<br />
I have is only the sign of a MOLLY-COD-<br />
DLISH mind.<br />
M 0 LLYG R U BS. See MULLIGRUBS.<br />
MOLLY MAGUIRES, subs. (obsolete).<br />
—I. An Irish secret society (c.<br />
1843) formed to intimidate bailiffs<br />
and process-servers.<br />
1868. TRENCH, Realities of Irish<br />
Life, vi. 'These MOLLY MAGUIRES were<br />
generally stout active young men, dressed<br />
up in women's clothes, with faces blackened<br />
or otherwise disguised ; sometimes<br />
they wore crape over their countenances,<br />
sometimes they smeared themselves in<br />
the most fantastic manner with burnt<br />
cork about their eyes, mouth, and cheeks.<br />
In this state they used suddenly to surprise<br />
the unfortunate grippers, keepers,<br />
or process-servers, and either duck them<br />
in bog-holes, or beat them in the most<br />
unmerciful manner, so that the MOLLY<br />
AIAGUIRES became the terror of all our<br />
officials.'<br />
2. (American).—A secret society<br />
formed in 1877 in the<br />
mining districts of Pennsylvania.<br />
The members sought to effect<br />
their purpose by intimidation,<br />
carried in some cases to murder.<br />
Several were brought to justice<br />
and executed.<br />
1867. HEPWORTH DixoN,Nezu America,<br />
ii. 28. The judge who tried the<br />
murderer was elected by the MOLLY<br />
MAGUIRES ; the jurors who assisted him<br />
were themselves MOLLY MAGUIRES. A<br />
score of MOLLY MAGUIRES came forward<br />
to swear that the assassin was sixty miles<br />
from the spot on which he bad been seen<br />
to fire at William Dunn . . .. and the<br />
jurors returned a verdict of Not Guilty.<br />
MOLLY-PUFF, subs. (old).—A gam-<br />
blers' decoy.<br />
1629. SHIRLEY, Wedding, iv. 3.<br />
Thou MOLLY-PUFF, were it not justice to<br />
kick thy guts out?<br />
MOLLY'S-HOLE, subs. (venery).—<br />
The female pudendum. For<br />
synonyms see MONOSYLLABLE.<br />
MOLOCKER, subs. (common).—See<br />
quots. Also as adj. and verb.
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