English Explanatory Dictionary

doll

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
  2. An attractive young woman.
  3. A transgender woman or transfeminine person, especially one that has a highly sexual and feminine personal style.
  4. A transgender woman or transfeminine person, in general.
  5. A term of endearment
  6. A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.
  7. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
  8. A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
  9. A barbiturate or amphetamine pill.
verb
  1. Synonym of doll up.
noun
  1. A temporary barrier used in horse racing.
verb
  1. To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).
noun
  1. Synonym of dollar.
noun
  1. Obsolete form of dal.
verb
  1. To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull.
name
  1. A township and rural village in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC8803).
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
  3. A surname.

Pronunciation

/dɒl/ /dɑl/ en-us-doll.ogg [dɒːɫ] /dɔl/ /ɖɔ(w)l/ /ɖol/ EN-AU ck1 doll.ogg

Word forms

doll dolls dollz dolling dolled

Etymology

From Doll, pet form of the given name Dorothy. Etymology 1, noun sense 7 was coined and popularized by American writer Jacqueline Susann in 1966 through her book Valley of the Dolls (1966) and the film adaptation Valley of the Dolls (1967).

Synonyms

darling sweetheart doll up dollar

Related words

puppet teddy teddy bear

Derived words

action doll apple doll babushka doll baby doll baby doll dress baby-doll dress bisque doll blood doll blow-up doll bobble-head doll syndrome Bobo doll China doll corn doll Dharma doll dolldom dollface dollhood dollhouse doll's house dollified dollish dollkind doll-less doll-like dollmaker dollmaking dollship doll's pram doll up dolly Dutch doll fashion doll fuckdoll glove doll harvest doll honeydoll Ken doll kewpie doll love doll matrioshka doll matryoshka doll nesting doll nutcracker doll paper doll Paris doll pincushion doll porcelain doll rag doll rapedoll Russian doll sex doll voodoo doll Waldorf doll wax doll

Translations

Hungarian: cicababa Italian: bambola Polish: lala Polish: lalka Polish: lalunia Spanish: muñeca
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