Home › Words › M › moleymoleymoley means pertaining to, full of, or characteristic of moles (burrowing insectivores).EtymologyFrom mole + -y.adjPertaining to, full of, or characteristic of moles (burrowing insectivores).e.g.“Although the snouts of moles twitch less than those of shrews, particularly elephant shrews, Dobson was enamoured of what he considered the more “moley” twitching of the snouts of moles.” — 2008, Frank Key, Gravitas, Punctilio, Rectitude & Pippy Bags, page 215:Having numerous moles (naevi)nounA kind of coconut curry from Madras.e.g.“A moley is a dish that is very well known and much liked in all curry-eating countries; the recipe we give is for moley as prepared in Ceylon.” — 1896, Lizzie Heritage, Cassell's new universal cookery book, page 521:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).