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).
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- spit chips
- spit curl
- spit dog
- spite
- spiteful
- spitefully
- spitefulness
- spit feathers (or tacks)
- spitfire
- Spithead
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- spit in the eye (or face) of
- spit it out
- spit (out) the dummy
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