doll

CEFRA1

/dɒl/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small toy shaped like a person.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An attractive young woman.

Examples

  • Show me the doll that you bought yesterday.

  • Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
4

Also pronounced

  • [dɒːɫ]
  • /ɖol/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.

  2. A transgender woman or transfeminine person, especially one that has a highly sexual and feminine personal style.

  3. A transgender woman or transfeminine person, in general.

More examples

In context

  • What a lovely doll!

  • 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.

  • The signals are on a three-doll bracket post; one doll carries two [signal] arms, one above the other.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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).