ATDTDA (1): "moll"

[Tim Strzechowski]

"Makes his molly disappear down a common kitchen funnel!" (p. 28).

Molly Bloom is a fictional character in the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey. The major difference between Molly and Penelope is that while Penelope is eternally faithful, Molly is not, having an affair with Hugh 'Blazes' Boylan after ten years of her celibacy within the marriage. Joyce modelled the character upon his wife Nora Barnacle; indeed, the day upon which the novel is set - June 16, 1904, now called Bloomsday - is that of their first date. Critics also point to another possible model for Molly in Amalia Popper, one of Joyce's students to whom he taught English while living in Trieste. Amalia Popper was the daughter of a Jewish businessman named Leopoldo Popper. Joyce wrote about his affair with Amalia Popper in the (now published) manuscript Giacomo Joyce, whose images and themes he used in Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Bloom


moll (mol) 
n. Slang. 
  1.. A woman companion of a gunman or gangster. 
  2.. A woman prostitute.
[Probably from the name Moll, nickname for Mary.]

noun 

  A woman who engages in sexual intercourse for payment: bawd, call girl, camp follower, courtesan, harlot, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, tart2, whore. Slang hooker. Idioms: lady of easy virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the night. See sex/asexual.
  http://www.answers.com/topic/moll#after_ad1

  The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders is a 1722 novel by Daniel Defoe.
  Defoe wrote this after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this point, due to the fall of both Whig and Tory party leaders with whom he had been associated; Robert Walpole was beginning his rise, and Defoe was never fully at home with the Walpole group. [...]

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moll_Flanders



  "Chevrollete managed to mollify even Lindsay by borrowing his 'skinner' and holding it coyly in front of their faces, as if to conceal a furtive kiss" (p. 28).

mollify
     v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
          "She managed to mollify her angry boss" [syn: pacify,
          lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, placate,
           gentle, gruntle]
     2: make less rigid or softerMollify \Mol"li*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mollified; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Mollifying.] [F. mollifier, L. mollificare; mollis
   soft + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Enmollient, Moil,
   v. t., and -fy.]
   1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness,
      harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the
      ground.

            With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts.
                                                  --Spenser.

   2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited
      feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.http://dict.die.net/mollify/

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