Idiom
hairy molly
Meaning
A hairy caterpillar.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Look at that hairy molly on the leaf.”
“The children were excited to find a fuzzy hairy molly crawling across the garden path.”
“While hiking through the dense forest, she carefully avoided touching the hairy molly resting upon the branch.”
Examples
simple
“Look at that hairy molly on the leaf.”
contextual
“The children were excited to find a fuzzy hairy molly crawling across the garden path.”
complex
“While hiking through the dense forest, she carefully avoided touching the hairy molly resting upon the branch.”
Origin
Probably a compound of the English *hairy* and the Irish *malaí*, the latter literally meaning eyebrows.
Key words
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