Test Your Vocabulary

Take Our 10-Question Quiz

Name That Thing

Take our visual vocab quiz

Test Your Knowledge »

True or False?

A quick quiz about stuff worth knowing

Take It Now »

Join Us on FB & Twitter

Get the Word of the Day and More

Facebook | Twitter
  1. Word Games
  2. Word of the Day
  3. New Words & Slang
  4. Video
 

molly

4 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. molly (noun)
  2. black mollie (noun)
  3. hog molly (noun)
  4. sailfin (noun)

mol·ly

noun \ˈmä-lē\
plural mollies

Definition of MOLLY

: any of several brightly colored tropical live-bearers (genus Poecilia) highly valued as aquarium fishes
See molly defined for kids »

Variants of MOLLY

mol·ly also mol·lie \ˈmä-lē\

Origin of MOLLY

by shortening from New Latin Mollienisia, former genus name, from Comte François North Mollien †1850 French statesman
First Known Use: circa 1933

Rhymes with MOLLY

Bali, brolly, Cali, collie, colly, Dalí, dolly, folly, golly, holly, jolly, lolly, Mali, Pali, poly, quale, trolley, volley

Learn More About MOLLY

Browse

Next Word in the Dictionary: mollycoddle (noun)
Previous Word in the Dictionary: mollusk
All Words Near: molly

Seen & Heard

What made you want to look up molly? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).