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noun
Verb phrase1.
a small figure representing a baby or other human being, especially for use as a child's toy.
2.
Slang.
a.
a pretty but expressionless or unintelligent woman.
b.
a girl or woman, especially one who is considered attractive.
c.
a boy or man who is considered attractive.
d.
(sometimes initial capital letter) an affectionate or familiar term of address (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).
3.
Informal. a generous or helpful person: You're a doll for lending me your car.
4.
doll up, Informal. to dress in an elegant or ostentatiously stylish manner: She got all dolled up for a trip to the opera.
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Doll up
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Related forms
doll·ish, doll-like, adjective
doll·ish·ly, adverb
doll·ish·ness, noun
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| doll up | |
| —vb | |
| slang (tr, adverb) to adorn or dress (oneself or another, esp a child) in a stylish or showy manner | |
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Word Origin & History
doll
1560, endearing name for a female pet or a mistress; originally a familiar form of fem. proper name Dorothy (q.v.). The -l- for -r- substitution in nicknames is common in Eng.: cf. Hal for Harold, Moll for Mary, Sally for Sarah, etc. Attested from 1648 as colloquial for
EXPAND "slattern;" sense of "child's toy baby" is c.1700. Transferred back to living beings 1778 in sense of "pretty, silly woman" dolled up is Amer.Eng. 1906. Doll's house first recorded 1783.
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Slang Dictionary
doll definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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