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As a name

* Moll (surname) * Moll Anderson, interior designer, life stylist, author, and former national iHeart Radio host * Moll Anthony, aka Mary Lesson (1807–1878), Irish ''bean feasa'' (wise-woman) * Moll Cutpurse, an alias of
Mary Frith Mary Frith (c. 1584 – 26 July 1659), alias Moll (or Mal) Cutpurse, was an English notorious pickpocket and fence of the London underworld. Meaning of nicknames Moll, apart from being a nickname for Mary, was a common name in the 16t ...
(c. 1584–1659), notorious London pickpocket and fence *
Moll Davis Mary "Moll" Davis (c. 1648 – 1708), also spelt Davies or Davys, was a courtesan and mistress of King Charles II of England. She was an actress and entertainer before and during her role as royal mistress. Early life Mary Davis was born in ...
(c. 1648–1708), entertainer and courtesan, singer, and actress, mistress to King Charles II of England *
Moll Dyer Moll Dyer (died c. 1697?) is the name of a legendary 17th-century resident of Leonardtown, Maryland, who was said to have been accused of witchcraft and chased out of her home by the local townsfolk on a winter night. Her body was found a few days ...
(died c. 1697?), a possibly legendary woman accused of witchcraft and driven out of her town * Moll King, an alias of Elizabeth Adkins (1696–1747), proprietor of a notorious London establishment, first with her husband, then alone *
Moll O'Driscoll Michael O'Driscoll (1922 - February 1988), known as Moll O'Driscoll was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for club side Clonakilty GAA, Clonakilty and at inter-county level with the Cork senior football team. Career O'Driscoll first came ...
, Irish Gaelic footballer * Moll Pitcher, born Mary Diamond (c. 1736-1813), a clairvoyant and fortune-teller * Aethelwold Moll, King of Northumbria 759-765


Fictional characters

* '' Moll Flanders'', the title character in the novel by Daniel Defoe * Moll Hackabout, the unfortunate prostitute portrayed in William Hogarth's ''
A Harlot's Progress ''A Harlot's Progress'' (also known as ''The Harlot's Progress'') is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed) and engravings (1732) by the English artist William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, M. (Moll or Mary) H ...
'' * ''Moll'', a character in the 1937 musical ''
The Cradle Will Rock ''The Cradle Will Rock'' is a 1937 play in music by Marc Blitzstein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles and produced by John Houseman. A Brechtian allegory of corruption and corporate greed, it ...
'' by Marc Blitzstein


Slang term

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Gun moll A gun moll or gangster moll or gangster's moll is the female companion of a male professional criminal. "Gun" was British slang for thief, derived from Yiddish ''ganef'', from the Hebrew ''gannāb'' ( גנב). "Moll" is also used as a euphemism for ...
, gangster moll or gangster's moll, the female companion of a hoodlum or gangster * Moll (slang), in Australia and New Zealand, a woman with loose sexual morals


Other uses

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Minor scale In music theory, the minor scale is three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just two as with the major scale, which ...
, in music * Moll, Skye, a
location In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...
in Highland, Scotland *
Möll The Möll (; presumably from sl, Mel, "rubble") is a river in northwestern Carinthia in Austria, a left tributary of the Drava. Its drainage basin is . Course The river rises in the High Tauern range of the Central Eastern Alps on the Pasterze ...
, a river of Austria * , a Spanish
grape variety This list of grape varieties includes cultivated grapes, whether used for wine, or eating as a table grape, fresh or dried (raisin, currant, sultana). For a complete list of all grape species including those unimportant to agriculture, see Viti ...
** Manto negro, another Spanish wine grape variety that is also known as Moll


See also

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Moll's Gap Moll's Gap or Céim an Daimh (meaning, Gap of the Ox), is a mountain pass on the N71 road from Kenmare to Killarney in Kerry, Ireland. Moll's Gap is on the Ring of Kerry route, and offers views of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks mountains, and is ...
, a mountain pass in County Kerry, Ireland * Molly, a given name * Mol (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation, given name, geo