Doll

Definition: Doll

Doll

Noun

1. A small replica of a person; used as a toy.

2. Informal terms for a (young) woman.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "doll" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Doll \Doll\, noun. [A contraction of Dorothy; or less probably an abbreviation of idol; or compare to OD. dol whipping top, Dutch dollen to rave, and English dull.]. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Doll

Amusement

Toy, plaything, bauble; doll; (puppet ); teetotum; knickknack; (trifle); magic lantern; (show); peep show, puppet show, raree show, gallanty show; toy shop; "quips and cranks and wanton wiles, nods and becks and wreathed smiles".

Littleness

Dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling,dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy, dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow.

Representation

Figure, figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust; statue, statuette.

Crosswords: Doll

Manx (game net).

You know, last year I caught him undressing my Barbie doll. (Girls Just Want to Have Fun; writing credit: Amy Spies)

Hey, doll. Could you scare up another round for our table over here (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray, Douglas Kenney, Harold Ramis)

Give that man a cupie doll! (Stalag 17; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

That was real clever, doll. Getting me to grovel like that so he'd change his mind (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

Ya know dude, it is a little weird that you are talking to my doll. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

People called said beware doll, you're bound to fall ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

That he cut out my heart like a paper doll (JESSE; performing artist: Carly Simon)

You're a doll (How Do I Make You; performing artist: Linda Ronstadt; writing credit: Billy Steinberg)

Be your baby doll. (Strut; performing artist: Sheena Easton)

I won't be your baby doll (Strut; performing artist: Sheena Easton)

China Doll (1974)

The Doll Squad (1973)

Oh! You Beautiful Doll (1973)

The Big Doll House (1971)

How to Make a Doll (1968)

Rag Doll (performing artist: The Four Seasons)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Doll Carriages and Wheeled Toys Designed to Be Ridden by Children, Bicycles, Tricycles, Scooters, and Pedal Cars: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Voodoo Lou's Office Voodoo Kit: Take Charge of Your Career -- With Voodoo! Includes Corporate Voodoo Doll and Executive Spellbook (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Doll Costuming (reference)

• Doll Show (reference)

• International Doll House News (reference)

• New England Doll Collector (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Art of the Doll Maker (reference)

• The Big Doll House (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Oh You Beautiful Doll (reference)

• Rumble Doll (reference)

• Satin Doll (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mia: The Search for Grandma's Remedy with FREE Mia Doll (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Caption: Talking Doll Unclothed, Voice Mechanism Alongside; West Orange, NJ; May 20, 1940; {29.140/4} (jpg).

While Mother made the sailor suit I was set to work on the doll dress. Credit: Library of Congress.

Of a doll with a pedigree. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woman in black with umbrella looking disparagingly at crying girl in pigtails with a doll carriage. Credit: Library of Congress.

Doll portraits of people who deserve better. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comic book illustration showing the Joker standing over a Batman voodoo doll; in the background, a sledgehammer has smashed through a TV showing the World Trade Center towers on fire in New York City during the September 11th terrorist attack] / Pascual. Credit: Library of Congress.

Unidentified girl, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated in chair, holding doll. Credit: Library of Congress.

Midwinter carnival, children's parade, doll sleds, Upper Saranac Lake, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Doll buggy on farm near Northome, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Kewpie doll bathing girl on main highway near Charleston, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Beautiful, charming, devastatingly intelligent, at last I'd got her to myself for a bit and was plying her with a bit of talk when this friend of yours barges up and says 'Hey doll, is this guy boring you

She had not seen this doll so near before

A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easychair beside the bed.

If Mary takes that doll, that dirty rag doll, I got to take my Injun bow.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Poland

The largest share of 2000 Polish toy imports were mechanized military toys, construction ("building block") toys, dolls, doll accessories and toys representing animals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "doll": baby doll ♦ baby doll pyjamas ♦ barbie doll ♦ doll maker ♦ doll oneself up ♦ doll out ♦ doll up ♦ glove doll ♦ jointed doll ♦ paper doll ♦ paris doll ♦ rag doll ♦ sawdust doll ♦ sleeping doll ♦ talking doll ♦ wax doll. Additional references.

Beginning with "doll": doll-dress, doll-eyes, doll-faced, doll-like, doll-mask, doll-size, doll-sized, doll-washing.

Ending with "doll": baby-doll, barbie-doll, china-doll, choirboy-doll, devil-doll, dutch-doll, half-doll, mer-doll, nest-doll, peg-doll, rag-doll, sugar-doll.

Containing "doll": baby-doll face.

Afrikaans

pop (puppet). (various references)

Albanian

person shumë tërheqës, nuskë (fetish, mascot), kukull (Dolly, marionette, puppet), bukuroshe (babe, beauty, Belle, cooky, lovely, peach, Peri, pinup, tootsy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏المحبوب (dear, duck, idol, love, poppet, true love), ‏أمرأة جميلة, ‏دمية (dolly, dummy, plaything, puppet, shot, tinpot, toy). (various references)

Basque

panpina. (various references)

Blackfoot

atapíím. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кукла. (various references)

Catalan

nina (puppet). (various references)

Chamorro

muñeka. (various references)

Chinese 

玩偶 . (various references)

Czech

panenka (Dolly). (various references)

Danish

dukke (anthropomorphic test device, bobbin, dolly, dummy, skein). (various references)

Dutch

pop (nymph, puppet), tonnetje (puppet). (various references)

Esperanto

pupo (puppet). (various references)

Faeroese

dukka (puppet), reivvera (puppet). (various references)

Farsi 

زن زیبای نادان(مج.), عروسک (Puppet, Toy), دخترک (Chit, Puss). (various references)

Finnish

pimu (baby, bird, birdie, chick), nukke, hempukka (bird, broad, tart). (various references)

French

poupée (Dolly), marionnette, guignol (doll for use in Punch-and-Judy show, doll for use in puppet show). (various references)

Frisian

poppe (baby, puppet), pop (baby, puppet). (various references)

German

puppe (baby, bimbo, cocoon, dolly, dummy, guy, marionette, pupa, puppet, Sheila). (various references)

Greek 

κούκλα (dummy, marionette, moppet, puppet). (various references)

Hebrew 

בובונת, בובה (dummy, figurehead, moppet, poppet, puppet, stooge). (various references)

Hungarian

baba (baby, dolly, poppet, puppet), segítőkész (furthersome, have a big heart, ready to help), babaarcú de nem okos nő. (various references)

Indonesian

golekan (puppet), gadis cantik (cutie), boneka (figurehead, puppet). (various references)

Italian

bambola (babe, Dolly, puppet). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

雛人形 , 雛 (chick, young bird), 人形　 (figure, puppet), 人形 (figure, puppet), ドラ息子 (being pegged to the dollar, Dolby, Dolby surround, dolce, dolcissimo, Doline, dollar, dollar clause, dollar peg, dollar shift, dollar shock, dollar shop, dollar usance, dolly, dolman sleeve, dolmen, dolphin kick, doria, Dorian, Dortmund, dream, dreamer, dreaming, dreamy, dribble, drifter, drill, drink, drip coffee, driven, durian, lazy son, profligate son), 偶人 (puppet), 偶 (couple, even number, friend, man and wife, occasional, rare, same kind), ほら貝 (abstractedly, baby, being stupefied, blankly, by ones and twos, clip joint, conch, crunch, dazedly, dimly, doing nothing, dreamily, drip drip, dry and crumbling, faintly, flushingly, gradually, hazily, here and there, idling away time, in flames, indistinctly, it's getting late, little by little, munch, one after another, pimples, rip-off, slang for cunt, slightly, splash, spots, subdued, to be moved to tears, to be touched by, to become blurred, to become dim, to become sentimental, to complain, to grumble, to rip someone off, trumpet shell, unfair overcharging, vaguely, we must be getting off, whispering, with a splash). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ドル (dollar), ぐうじん (puppet), ぐう (couple, even number, friend, man and wife, occasional, rare, same kind), ひなにんぎょう, ひな (chick, country, young bird), ひよこ (chick, young bird), ぼぼ (baby, slang for cunt), にんぎょう (figure, puppet). (various references)

Korean 

인형. (various references)

Manx

babban (babe, baby, lobe, tassel). (various references)

Mohawk

kaya'tonni. (various references)

Norwegian

dukke (dip, duck). (various references)

Occitan

monaca (puppet). (various references)

Papago

shobbiad. (various references)

Papiamen

pòpchi (puppet). (various references)

Pig Latin

ollday.(various references)

Portuguese

boneca (dummy, poppet, poppet-valve, puppet), boneco (manikin, puppet, toy). (various references)

Romanian

se gãti (array, mum, perk up, prank, preen, prink oneself up, Spruce), se dichisi (Spruce), pãpuşã (ball, poppet, puppet, stock), gãti (attire, caparison, cook, dress, end, fig out, prank, preen, prepare, rig, Spruce, trim). (various references)

Russian 

кукла (poppet). (various references)

Sepedi

popi. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lutka (dummy, maggot, mannequin, pupa, puppet), ljubazna osoba. (various references)

Spanish

muñeca (dollish, dummy, puppet, wrist). (various references)

Sranan

popki (puppet). (various references)

Swedish

docka (dock, dock (of the bay], Dolly, puppet, skein). (various references)

Tagalog

manikà (puppet). (various references)

Thai

ตุ๊กตา, หญิงสาว (bird). (various references)

Turkish

bebek (babe, baby, Bebek, cookie, cooky, Dolly, infant, infantile, puppet). (various references)

Turkmen 

gurjak (toy), emzik (dummy). (various references)

Ukrainian

коханка (paramour), гарненька дитина, наряджатися (dink, primp), наряджати (array, attire, caparison, prank, prink, rig out, smug), лялька (baby, nest-doll, poppet), дівчина (adolescent, celibate, colleen, demoiselle, gal, girl, lass, maiden, wench). (various references)

Vietnamese 

manơcanh (paris doll). (various references)

pupa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "doll": dollar, dollars, dolled, dollhouse, dollhouses, dollied, dollies, dolling, dollish, dollishly, dollishness, dollishnesses, dollop, dolloped, dolloping, dollops, dolls, dolly, dollying. (additional references)

Words containing "doll": nondollar, petrodollar, petrodollars. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Doll" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adol, dall, delcl, deol, Deolali, dhl, diol, dll, dlog, dlom, dlon, dlop, doal, doil, d'oil, dol, Do'l, dold, dolg, dolh, doli, dolli, doln, dolo, dolv, dool, doolb, Dorl, doul, D'oulx, Dowl, dozl, dul, dyl, dyll, Eddoll, ioll, odol, oll, voll. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dol, old.

-2 letters: do, lo, od.

+1 letter: aldol, allod, dolls, dolly, droll.

+2 letters: aldols, allods, boldly, bolled, coldly, dollar, dolled, dollop, drolls, drolly, duello, lolled, lordly, loudly, polled, rolled, tolled.

+3 letters: allodia, allowed, alloyed, alodial, bedroll, bollard, bulldog, collard, collide, collied, colloid, collude, doleful, dollars, dollied, dollies, dolling, dollish, dollops, drolled, droller, duellos, godlily, halloed, helloed, hilloed, holdall, hollaed, holland, holloed, hulloed, jollied, knolled, loculed, lowland, modally, nodally, oddball, pollard, redpoll, solidly, trolled, wadmoll, woolled, worldly.