What's the difference between golly and molly?

Golly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Golly; so riled is Abrams that he has committed a Hollywood solecism – you never tell anyone not to come.
  • (2) Helena Bonham Carter, one of the stars of the film, was seen to mouth “Oh golly” as the protesters jumped the barrier as she was walking the red carpet.
  • (3) The vote on Europe might not have been binding, but by golly it was important.
  • (4) As a general spirit, I'd accept the term "rock and roll" – but if we're talking about Good Golly Miss Molly then it couldn't possibly be further from us.
  • (5) It looks like the Starship Enterprise and costs an eye-watering £299, but by golly, it juices them brassicas good.
  • (6) When these books were published, 'jeepers' and 'golly gosh' was modern slang.
  • (7) You know, it wasn't, 'Golly, gee, them Commies are bad.'
  • (8) I remember after that thinking, 'Golly, how can I keep raising the game?'"
  • (9) "By golly, I just hate these unamerican [sic] shoes!"
  • (10) The first is this, the sort of companies that I understand don't sit there saying, 'by golly, we've got to be able to get rid of people, so therefore we mustn't invest because the risks are too high.'
  • (11) The New Vic continued the tradition of staging new work, including Chris Martin's 1988 adaptation of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha and Bob Eaton's musical Good Golly Miss Molly (1989), as well as classic repertory.
  • (12) Ordinarily I'd be elated – I'd been determined to find Hugh the perfect present, and, by golly, I had done it – but instead I felt unhinged, not by the things I had seen so much as by the taxidermist.

Molly


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Mollemoke.
  • (n.) A pet or colloquial name for Mary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (2) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (3) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (4) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (5) In the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna, seven morphological endocrine cell-types could be distinguished with the electron microscope.
  • (6) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
  • (7) Heart-warming and heart-breaking, Tales takes us from 1976 to 2012, from shared landlines to Facebook, from Quaaludes to Molly (MDMA), from the fringe to the mainstream.
  • (8) Chromosomes of the Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, a unisexual species of hybrid origin, were investigated by C-banding, silver staining, and fluorescent staining with DAPI, quinacrine dihydrochloride, and chromomycin A3.
  • (9) Look after everyone for me, especially Adam and Molly.
  • (10) Molly Mattingly, head of learning disability projects at the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities : "We have a range of support mechanisms at our disposal such as personal budgets, Circles of Support and personalised living arrangements.
  • (11) Mollie Whitworth North Walsham, Norfolk • What an impressive change the House of Lords debate on tax credit regulations made to the usual childish Punch and Judy politics of the other house.
  • (12) Earlier that day, my husband had driven to Indianapolis on business, so Molly and I sat in my living room with our dogs and our laptops, drinking tea and clacking away for hours.
  • (13) She's a bichon frise called Molly and when we took her to the vet he did his routine checks and said, "You've got yourself a girl… no, a boy… no, it's a girl… no, it's both".
  • (14) An extensive system of galanin-like immunoreactive (GAL-LI) fibers has been described in the brainstem and spinal cord of the male molly, which is absent in the female (Cornbrooks and Parsons, companion paper).
  • (15) The show was pipped in the lead acting awards however, with Jim Parsons winning for his portrayal of Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory and Melissa McCarthy winning for Molly in Mike & Molly.
  • (16) He was diagnosed as having chorea mollis, a rare variant of Sydenham's chorea.
  • (17) Gabrielle and Nick with their parents, Molly and Rodney.
  • (18) November 4, 2012 Molly Ball (@mollyesque) Starting to think the greatest thing Obama has done for this country is making Republicans sneer at golf.
  • (19) After a brief first marriage to a banker, she is married to a photographer, Adrian Clarke, by whom she has two daughters, Albertine, 10 and Jessye, nine, as well as a 17-year-old stepdaughter, Molly, from his first marriage.
  • (20) I’ll call you a cab, tell them to send someone who doesn’t mind dogs, and I’ll pay,” I offered – but even as I said it, I was thinking of other possible scenarios: Molly could leave her dog overnight with me and grab any old cab home.

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