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doll¹

  • /dɒl/ UK
  • /dɑl/ US
  • [dɒːɫ] Canada
  • /dɔl/ Australia
  • /ɖɔ(w)l/ South Asia
  • /ɖol/ South Asia

Sounds like dol, (father-bother merger) dal, dahl, (doll–dole merger) dole · Rhymes with -ɒl

Where it comes from

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).

noun dolls · dollz

  1. A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy. "A thousand dollars are money, my father used to say when he drove fat oxen to market," replied John Wilde, in a mocking tone; "but it will not leave my hands for that shabby price; and, for my own part, it may ornament the foot of my daughter's doll."
  2. slang An attractive young woman. 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. slang A transgender woman or transfeminine person, especially one that has a highly sexual and feminine personal style.
  4. slang A transgender woman or transfeminine person, in general.
  5. Australia, Scotland, US, dated A term of endearment Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”
  6. US A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person. Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?
  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. The signals are on a three-doll bracket post; one doll carries two [signal] arms, one above the other.
  9. slang A barbiturate or amphetamine pill. Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.
  10. Internet A pixel art depiction of a person, typically customized from a base template.

verb dolls · dolling · dolled

  1. Synonym of doll up.

doll²

  • /dɒl/ UK
  • /dɑl/ US
  • [dɒːɫ] Canada
  • /dɔl/ Australia
  • /ɖɔ(w)l/ South Asia
  • /ɖol/ South Asia

Sounds like dol, (father-bother merger) dal, dahl, (doll–dole merger) dole · Rhymes with -ɒl

Where it comes from

Probably variant of archaic dool (“boundary marker”).

noun dolls

  1. A temporary barrier used in horse racing. On a beautiful spring morning, after the “dolls and chains” had been removed to allow the horses room to pass through, in galloping “across the flat,” […]

verb dolls · dolling · dolled

  1. UK, transitive To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).

doll³

  • /dɒl/ UK
  • /dɑl/ US
  • [dɒːɫ] Canada
  • /dɔl/ Australia
  • /ɖɔ(w)l/ South Asia
  • /ɖol/ South Asia

Sounds like dol, (father-bother merger) dal, dahl, (doll–dole merger) dole · Rhymes with -ɒl

Where it comes from

Clipping of dollar.

noun dolls

  1. US, obsolete Synonym of dollar.

doll⁴

  • /dɒl/ UK
  • /dɑl/ US
  • [dɒːɫ] Canada
  • /dɔl/ Australia
  • /ɖɔ(w)l/ South Asia
  • /ɖol/ South Asia

Sounds like dol, (father-bother merger) dal, dahl, (doll–dole merger) dole · Rhymes with -ɒl

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable Obsolete form of dal.dal

doll⁵

  • /dɒl/ UK
  • /dɑl/ US
  • [dɒːɫ] Canada
  • /dɔl/ Australia
  • /ɖɔ(w)l/ South Asia
  • /ɖol/ South Asia

Sounds like dol, (father-bother merger) dal, dahl, (doll–dole merger) dole · Rhymes with -ɒl

Where it comes from

Possibly same as dull (whence Middle English doll).

verb dolls · dolling · dolled

  1. obsolete, transitive To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull.

Doll⁶

Where it comes from

* As a south German surname, from toll (“mad, foolish”).

* Also as a German surname, spelling variant of Thiel.

* As an English surname, from the adjective dull, cognate with the first German derivation. Also compare Dill.

proper noun

  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. O! run, Doll, run; run, good Doll.
  3. A surname.

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