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单词 molly dook
释义

Definition of molly dook in English:

molly dook

nounˌmɒlɪ ˈduːk
Australian informal
  • A left-handed person.

    nothing wrong with being a molly dook
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What's so wrong with the "molly-dook?" Nearly all boxers are left-handed.
    • The camera catches mollydook Frank Watts having a crack at the ring, the expressions on his mates' faces recording their ideas of his chances.
    • Evatt was a left-hander with the bat — a 'molly dook' — and thereby, said the cruel, there surely hangs a tale.
    • The book is a postmodern tragic comedy about a sweet Californian dreamer who meets a mollydook mystic in a sleepy village on the North Coast.
    • Both wore outstanding 'molly dook' punchers who surmounted the difficulties wllh which such boxers roust contend.

Origin

1930s: from Molly (pet form of the given name Mary) or from the slang term mauley 'hand' + -dook representing a pronunciation of duke (sense 2 of the noun).

 
 
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