释义 |
mollag Manx dial.|ˈmɒləg| [Manx.] ‘A dog's skin blown up as a bladder, and used to float the herring-nets’ (Kelly Manx Dict. 1866). as empty as a mollag, quite empty; as full as a mollag, dead drunk.
1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 132 One Balk or long line for cod-fishing,..with ‘mollag’ or buoy. 1894Hall Caine Manxman 151 Your head's as empty as a mollag. |