Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - doll
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Doll
doll
noun Etymology: probably from Doll, nickname for Dorothy Date: circa 1700 1. a small-scale figure of a human being used especially as a child's plaything 2. a. (1) a pretty but often empty-headed young woman (2) woman b. darling, sweetheart c. an attractive person • ~ish adjective • ~ishly adverb • ~ishness noun
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1.
n. & v. --n. 1 a small model of a human figure, esp. a baby or a child, as a child's toy. 2 a colloq. a pretty but silly young woman. b sl. a young woman, esp. an attractive one. 3 a ventriloquist's dummy. --v.tr. & intr. (foll. by up) dress up smartly. Phrases and idioms doll's house 1 a miniature toy house for dolls. 2 a very small house. Etymology: pet form of the name Dorothy ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
3.
1. кукла stuffed (rag) doll —- тряпичная кукла Dutch (wooden) doll —- деревянная кукла Paris doll —- манекен doll's house —- кукольный домик (также перен.) doll's face —- кукольное личико 2. разг. куколка; пустая женщина с кукольным личиком 3. хорошенький ребенок 4. ам. разг. девушка, женщина 5. сл. любовница 6. (обыкн. doll up) разг. наряжать 7. разг. нарядиться, вырядиться, прифрантиться ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
4.
noun; dim. of Dorothy Долл DOLL 1. noun 1) кукла - Paris doll 2) куколка, хорошенькая пустоголовая девушка или женщина 2. v. coll. наряжать(ся) (обыкн. doll up) dolled up - разряженный ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
(dolls, dolling, dolled) A doll is a child’s toy which looks like a small person or baby. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
6.
~1 n 1 a child's toy that looks like a small person 2 slang a word meaning an attractive young woman, that is now usually considered offensive 3 AmE informal a very nice person (Jim's a real doll - he let me borrow his car.) ~2 v doll sb up phr v informal if a woman dolls herself up, she gets ready for a social occasion by putting on attractive clothes and makeup (1) (doll yourself up) (I can't be bothered to doll myself up tonight. | be/get dolled up) (The girls were all dolled up for a party.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
7.
- 1560, endearing name for a female pet or a mistress; 1648 as colloquial for "slattern;" sense of "child's toy baby" is pre-1700. Originally familiar of Dorothy (the -l- for -r- substitution in nicknames is common in Eng.: Hal for Harold, Moll for Molly, Sally for Sarah, etc.) Dolly is 1610 as a nickname, 1790 as "child's doll;" transfered back to living beings 1841 in sense of "pretty, silly woman" (later applied to any contrivance fancied to resemble a dolly); dolled up is Amer.Eng. 1906. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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