Hairy Molly

n.

Heard in Waterford, Cork, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Offaly, Tipperary and Wexford

A particularly hairy species of caterpillar... Comes from the Gaelic word for eyebrow 'mala'... Also: A term used to describe large follicly unchallenged men of low intellect.

In use

Is dat yer man's eyebrow on the ground over there?" "Nah 'tis just a hairy molly boy!" "I don't go in there any more, too many hairy mollies drinkin' in there now

Posh English

'Is that fellow's eyebrow reposing upon the ground over there?' 'No, it is merely a hairy caterpillar, my boy!'