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▪ I. doll, n.1|dɒl|
[a shortened pet-form of Dorothy, Dor- being modified to Dol-: cf. Hal, Sall, Mall, Moll, Poll = Harry, Sarah, Mary.]
1. A pet form of the name Dorothy. Hence given generically to a female pet, a mistress. Also, the smallest or pet pig in a litter (dial.).
1560Nice Wanton in Hazl. Dodsley II. 169 But ich tell your minion doll, by Gogs body. 1578Cooper Thesaurus, O Capitulum lepidissimum, o pleasaunt companion: O little pretie doll polle. a1592Greene Jas. IV, i. i, In loving of my Doll [Dorothea], Thou bind'st her father's heart. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, ii. i. 176 Will you have Doll Teare-sheet meet you? Ibid. ii. iv. 23 Enter Hostesse, and Dol. 1619Fletcher M. Thomas iv. vi, Com Doll, Doll, dizen me. 1883Hampsh. Gloss., Doll, the smallest pig in a litter.
2. a. An image of a human being (commonly of a child or lady) used as a plaything; a girl's toy-baby. [Cf. Sc. Doroty, a doll, a puppet. (Jam.)]
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Doll..also a Child's Baby. 1747Garrick Miss in her Teens ii. i, I'll carry you and your doll too. 1764O'Hara Midas i. v, An infant's dol. 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. i, As large as my doll's saucers. 1860All Year Round No. 52. 35 A laborious class Who earn painful bread by fashioning dolls' eyes.
b. A dummy used by a ventriloquist, or by a puppeteer.
1893R. Ganthony Pract. Ventriloquism iv. 138 Hand Dolls to fit on hand (à la punch)... Knee Dolls 30 inch high, dressed any character. 1950Oxf. Jun. Encycl. IX. 476/2 A conventional ventriloquist's dummy is a wooden doll with large glassy eyes, enormous shutter mouth, and teeth like tombstones. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIV. 906/2 To operate, put the doll on the hand like a glove. 1967Listener 23 Nov. 679/1 Voices that belong not to human beings but to ventriloquists' dolls.
3. transf. A pretty, but unintelligent or empty person, esp. when dressed up; a pretty, but silly or frivolous woman. Also in more general sense: a woman; a girl; esp. a very beautiful or attractive woman; also occas., a pleasant or attractive man. a doll's face, one conventionally pretty, but without life or expression. Now slang.
1778F. Burney Evelina I. xxiii. 197 As to the women, why they are mere dolls. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Self-reliance Wks. (Bohn) I. 32 A sturdy lad..is worth a hundred of these city dolls. 1846New Swell's Guide to Night Life 29 (Partridge, Dict. Slang Suppl.), Soldiers and their Dolls. 1851[see toff n.]. 1860All Year Round No. 47. 497 No worker cares to espouse a doll who costs such a deal of money to dress. 1894Baring-Gould Queen Love III. 145 You care for herself—for her doll's face and wig of yellow hair? 1903R. L. McCardell Conversations of Chorus Girl 53 At Vassar..a bunch of society dolls..are teaching me high kicking. 1923G. McKnight Eng. Words iv. 61 In the vocabulary of modern youth, chivalry is dead... A girl is..a chicken, a doll, [etc.]. 1931D. Runyon (title) Guys and dolls. 1961‘B. Wells’ Day Earth caught Fire ix. 133, I don't dig you, doll. Look we're all entitled to so much water. 1961in Webster s.v., He is tall, handsome, and muscular. In short, he's a doll. 1967I. Marder Paris Bit iii. 47 He came up to me..and shook hands warmly... ‘Max, doll! How are you?’ 1971Scope (S. Afr.) 19 Mar. 139/1 You don't have to do it, doll.
4.
†a. A hairdresser's block. Obs.
b. = dolly n.1 4 a.
c. A pair of steps, with wheels, and a stage at the top, used on coal-wharves.
d. doll's head (in a rifle), a top-extension fitting into a mortice in the top of the standing-breech.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Doll, a wooden Block to make up Commodes upon. 1841P. Parley's Ann. II. 178 As I understand you get your living by washing, I send you a doll now..namely, a washing doll. 1881Greener Gun 216 Our new treble-bolt prevents this by keeping the doll's head firmly down in the slot in standing-breech.
5. Comb., as doll-face, doll-kind, doll-maker, doll-pig (see 1), etc.; doll-like, doll-sized adjs.; † doll-common (the Cheater's punk in Ben Jonson's Alchemist) a common woman, a prostitute; dolls' hospital (also N. Amer. doll hospital), an establishment in which dolls are repaired and from which materials for doll-making can be bought; doll-house (see doll's house); doll-land, the realm of dolls.
1610B. Jonson Alch. i. i, Thou shalt sit in triumph, And not be styled Dol Common, but Dol Proper, Dol Singular. 1684Otway Atheist v. (1735) 93 What, be a Doll-common, and follow the camp.
1884Tennyson Becket iv. ii, A doll-face blanch'd and bloodless.
1917Playthings Aug. 114/2 (Advt.), Doll hospital. Attention French bisque heads. 1928Donaldson's Port Elizabeth & Surburban Directory (S. Afr.) 113 Dolls' Hospital, Peel St., box 550. 1934Cope's Directory: Worcs. 217/1 Bradburn A M..speciality, dolls' hospital. 1941E. F. Ackley Doll Shop of your Own 93 A doll hospital section of your shop is a possibility... The Humpty Dumpty Doll Hospital in California is one of the best known. 1949Eastern Province & Midlands Directory (S. Afr.) 90/2 Dolls Hospital. 1964Certificate of Incorporation (Companies House) No. 818240, 3 Sept., Doll's Hospital Limited. 1964A. Butler Teaching Children Embroidery ii. 22 Hair may be obtained from any Doll's Hospital shop. 1971J. Leasor Love-All ix. 155 The Dolls' Hospital... A giant red cross and red crescent painted on the glass showed..that here was a hospital of some kind.
1871Monthly Packet Oct. 392 The inhabitants of Doll-land would never have recognized the difference between these home manufactures and the best Russian sables! 1959Chambers's Encycl. XIII. 709/2 An interesting adjunct of doll-land is the doll's house.
1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. Introd. (1863) 461 The delicate doll-like baby..is her own.
1823–5Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. s.v. Doll (L.), In the middle ages the doll-maker was called coroplastes, and the dolls clothed like infants.
1843P. Parley's Ann. IV. 269 The poor woman..wept as if she had lost her youngest child instead of the doll pig, which is the name usually given to the pet of the farrow.
Hence ˈdollatry, nonce-wd. [after idolatry], worship of dolls. ˈdolldom, the world of dolls. ˈdollhood, the state or condition of a doll, or of being like a doll. ˈdollship, the personality of a doll or doll-like woman.
1856Chamb. Jrnl. VI. 261 To convince good Protestant mammas that ‘dollatry’ was not the result or the origin of Mariolatry. 1860All Year Round No. 52. 35 Those limp enormities of dolldom with their pink wooden legs. 1893Graphic 3 June 627/3 How a lady moving in the best circles of dolldom ought to be dressed. 18..Carlyle Let., There is much for her to do..her whole sex to deliver from the bondage of frivolity, dollhood, and imbecility. 1876W. Bayliss Witness of Art 19 Radiant with all that real hair, and wax and rolling eyes can impart to dollhood. 1754Richardson Grandison (1811) VI. 104 The man who should dare to say half I have written of our dollships ought not to go away with his life.
Add:[2.] c. The target in the game of Aunt Sally; hence, a score made by hitting this off its stand or ‘iron’. Cf. aunt n. 4.
[1946G. Tyrwhitt-Drake Eng. Circus & Fair Ground xvii. 202 Aunt Sally or the 'Airy Mary’s; sticks, covered with coloured hair, with dolls' heads.] 1983Wantage & Grove Herald 27 Jan. 24/4 Bernard Stimpson was top man for Drayton with 9 dolls. 1985Abingdon Herald 21 Feb. 23/2 Colin Brind scored a magnificent 15 dolls for the Legion including a fine six in the final leg... Highest doll scorers of the season are Sid Green, 142, [etc.].
▪ II. † doll, n.2 Obs.
[The same as dalle.]
The palm of the hand.
c1460[See dalle]. 1570Levins Manip. 160/10 Y⊇ Doll of the hand, vola. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. vi. (1593) 138 Her babes their prettie dolles did retch.
▪ III. doll, n.3 Horse-racing.|dɒl|
Also dole.
[? var. dool1.]
A hurdle used as a barrier (see quot. 1942).
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §732/5 Doles, dolls, barrier hurdles across gallops to close them to horses and horsemen, or to mark turns on a course or gallop. 1958J. Hislop From Start to Finish vi. 49 The best going is always nearest to the bushes or dolls marking out the gallop.
▪ IV. † doll, v.1 Obs.
Also 6–9 dowl.
[Deriv. unknown: it has been conjectured to be the same word as dull (of which doll occurs as a ME. form): but the Promptorium separates them.]
1. trans. To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull. Hence ˈdolling vbl. n.
c1440Promp. Parv. 126/1 Dollyd, sum what hotte, tepefactus. Dollyn' ale, or oþer drynke, tepefacio. c1490Ibid., Dollynge (MS. K), Doolynge (MS. H), tepefactio. 1658Phillips, Dolling, warming. [So in Coles, Kersey, Bailey.]
2. To render stale or vapid, to deaden (drink).
1483Cath. Angl. 103/2 Dollyd as wyne or ale, defunctus, vapidus. 1513Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 268 Loke ye gyue no persone noo dowled drynke. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Dowl'd or Dull'd, deadened as stale liquor.
▪ V. doll, v.2 colloq.|dɒl|
[f. doll n.1 2.]
trans. To dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. Also intr. (for refl.) and transf. So ˈdolled(-up) ppl. a., ˈdolling(-up) vbl. n.
1906Even. Standard 31 Aug. 3/3 The time fellows spent in dolling up before taking a wheel. 1916H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ix. 378 Jeff said he'd also doll up in his dress suit and get shaved. 1917C. Mathewson Sec. Base Sloan xix. 261 He was..all dolled up in fancy togs. 1921Public Opinion 9 Sept. 252/1 Keturah dolled herself up a little but not too much. 1921H. C. Witwer Leather Pushers iv. 93 He..gives himself a swift dollin' up before the mirror. 1923E. O'Neill Hairy Ape v. 46 All dis is too clean and quiet and dolled up. 1927M. Eiker Over the Boat-Side 269 She had been exquisitely costumed. If she ever did run into Reverdy, she hoped it would be some time when she was dolled. 1928Daily Express 11 Sept. 5/5 The look of bitter contempt and disgust that glittered out of the dolled-up servitor's eyes. 1928Galsworthy Swan Song ii. xiii. 216 He supposed his fellow-guests were ‘dolling up’ (as young Michael would put it) for this ball. 1932E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost iv. 29 The new architecture..is a revelation of our helplessness under the industrial system... When we try to doll it up a little, the result is..the New School. Ibid. xxii. 234 A dolled-up blonde had called at his office. 1955‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren iii. 67 She could put on her Number Ones and doll herself up smartly. 1959J. Fleming Miss Bones ii. 18 Change the frames over..doll them up—you know the sort of thing that makes them sell.
▪ VI. † doll
var. of dal (Anglo-Ind.), a kind of pulse; obs. f. dole n.2, dull. |