"mollydooker" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably from molly (“(dialect) fussy man who does women's work”) + dook (variant of duke (“fist”)) + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mollydookers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "mollydooker (plural mollydookers)",
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
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            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Joy Dettman, Henry′s Daughter, page 45",
          "text": "‘G′day,’ Martin says. ‘So who′s who?’ They don′t answer him. Maybe they can′t talk. ‘I reckon you′re Alan, the mollydooker, and you′re Eddy. Am I right?’ They cringe, don′t know what a ‘mollydooker’ is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Leonard Spencer, Waving Goodbye To A Thousand Flies, page 90",
          "text": "I thought to myself how remarkably young Emma looked to be twice Penny′s age, which would make her 35 years of age, and a Mollydooker, Emma was (left handed).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January 10, Ian Chappell, Inside Cricket, reprinted 2006, A Golden Age, unnumbered page",
          "text": "In addition to those duels favouring Australia, Michael Kasprowicz was dynamite against left-handers in 2004 (forty-two per cent of his victims) and England's top three are all mollydukers."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Barry Heard, The View from Connor's Hill: A Memoir, Large print (16 point) edition, page xi",
          "text": "There is no doubt he was one of the best shearers I′d ever picked up for when I used to rouseabout. But he was a bloody mollydooker—a left-hander—and it was difficult to pick up his fleece when he finished shearing his sheep."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Bruce Pascoe, Bloke, unnumbered page",
          "text": "The fish shed needed drones to do the feeding, kids like Scrubber Higgins – mollydook surfer, fair to average half-forward flanker, Xbox champion, unemployed before becoming an instant aquaculture expert.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home, page 278",
          "text": "“Is it harder for a pilot, being left-handed?” she asked, as if adding to an existing conversation.\nHe glanced down at his left arm, flexed his fingers, now free of plaster. “Been a mollydooker all my life. Reckon I don′t know any different.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A left-handed person."
      ],
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        [
          "left-handed",
          "left-handed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Australia, slang) A left-handed person."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "southpaw"
        },
        {
          "word": "mollydook"
        },
        {
          "word": "molly-dooker"
        },
        {
          "word": "mollyduker"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mollydooker"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Probably from molly (“(dialect) fussy man who does women's work”) + dook (variant of duke (“fist”)) + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mollydookers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mollydooker (plural mollydookers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, Joy Dettman, Henry′s Daughter, page 45",
          "text": "‘G′day,’ Martin says. ‘So who′s who?’ They don′t answer him. Maybe they can′t talk. ‘I reckon you′re Alan, the mollydooker, and you′re Eddy. Am I right?’ They cringe, don′t know what a ‘mollydooker’ is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, John Leonard Spencer, Waving Goodbye To A Thousand Flies, page 90",
          "text": "I thought to myself how remarkably young Emma looked to be twice Penny′s age, which would make her 35 years of age, and a Mollydooker, Emma was (left handed).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January 10, Ian Chappell, Inside Cricket, reprinted 2006, A Golden Age, unnumbered page",
          "text": "In addition to those duels favouring Australia, Michael Kasprowicz was dynamite against left-handers in 2004 (forty-two per cent of his victims) and England's top three are all mollydukers."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Barry Heard, The View from Connor's Hill: A Memoir, Large print (16 point) edition, page xi",
          "text": "There is no doubt he was one of the best shearers I′d ever picked up for when I used to rouseabout. But he was a bloody mollydooker—a left-hander—and it was difficult to pick up his fleece when he finished shearing his sheep."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Bruce Pascoe, Bloke, unnumbered page",
          "text": "The fish shed needed drones to do the feeding, kids like Scrubber Higgins – mollydook surfer, fair to average half-forward flanker, Xbox champion, unemployed before becoming an instant aquaculture expert.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home, page 278",
          "text": "“Is it harder for a pilot, being left-handed?” she asked, as if adding to an existing conversation.\nHe glanced down at his left arm, flexed his fingers, now free of plaster. “Been a mollydooker all my life. Reckon I don′t know any different.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A left-handed person."
      ],
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        [
          "left-handed",
          "left-handed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Australia, slang) A left-handed person."
      ],
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        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "southpaw"
    },
    {
      "word": "mollydook"
    },
    {
      "word": "molly-dooker"
    },
    {
      "word": "mollyduker"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mollydooker"
}