doll
//dɒl//
Forms
- Plural
- dolls
- present (v1)
- doll
- past (v2)
- dolled
- past participle (v3)
- dolled
- present participle
- dolling
- 3rd person singular
- dolls
Definitions
1.A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
- She made the doll for me.
2.An attractive young woman.(slang)
- Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.
3.A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.
- Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?
- Ow! These things are defective. Pipsqueak, be a doll, I need a new pair, pronto!
4.The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
- She made the doll for me.
1.To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).
2.Synonym of doll up.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4045
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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).