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moll-ˈbuzzer Thieves' slang.
[f. moll n. + buzzer.]
So moll-buzzing vbl. n. (see quots.).
1859Matsell Voc. (Farmer), s.v. Moll,.. Moll-buzzer, a thief that devotes himself to picking the pockets of women. 1900‘Flynt’ & Walton Powers that Prey 225 Her gift for mathematics made it clear that ‘moll-buzzing’ was much more remunerative than sleeping in cellars and peddling Park Row literature. 1903Moll-buzzing [see graft n.5]. 1904Speaker 11 June 256/2 He made a lot of money by ‘moll-buzzing’ or picking women's pockets in the streets. 1910N.Y. Even. Post 25 Aug., To have the country cousin clutch his arm and enquire whether that rough-looking customer coming out of a Chatham Square saloon is a dip, a yegg, a stall, a moll-buzzer, a Fagin, or a gun. 1912A. Berkman Prison Mem. Anarchist ii. xxii. 278 The ‘gun’..gathers messages for their ‘moll buzzers’ [f.n. women thieves]. 1912Collier's 23 Nov. 12/2 When he came out he began as a ‘moll buzzer’, which, you understand, means a pickpocket who specializes on the fair sex; he buzzes the ‘molls’. 1936Evening News 9 Dec. 8/5 Buzzers are male pickpockets who specialise in opening women's handbags; moll buzzers are the females of the species. 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 169 The moll buzzer (male or female) is not strictly speaking a pickpocket... But the thief takes money from the purses or handbags..carried by women. Ibid., There's a reason for moll buzzing. |