molly dook
/ˌmɒlɪ ˈduːk/noun Australian informal
A left-handed person: nothing wrong with being a molly dook...
- 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.
- Evatt was a left-hander with the bat — a 'molly dook' — and thereby, said the cruel, there surely hangs a tale.
- The camera catches mollydook Frank Watts having a crack at the ring, the expressions on his mates' faces recording their ideas of his chances.
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).
- Ripuarian
- Rip Van Winkle
- Rip Van Winkledom
- Ripvanwinkledom
- Rip Van Winkleish
- Rip Van Winkleism
- Rip Van Winklish
- Rip Van Winklism
- riq
- riqq
- Riquewihr
- riroriro
- riro-riro
- risaladar
- risaldar
- RISC
- ris de veau
- rise
- rise-and-fall
- rise and shine
- rise-fall
- rise heading
- rise like a phoenix from the ashes
- rise like a rocket (and fall like a stick)
- rise (or emerge) from the ashes