dolln.1
/dɒl/, U.S. /dɑl/ 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 (dialect).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > a mistress
chevesea700
wifeOE
bed-sister1297
concubine1297
leman1297
file1303
speciala1400
womanc1400
chamberer?a1425
mistress?a1439
cousin1470
doxy?1515
doll1560
pinnacea1568
nobsya1575
lier-by1583
sweetheart1589
she-friend1600
miss1606
underput1607
concupy1609
lig-by1610
factoress1611
leveret1617
night-piece1621
belly-piece1632
dolly1648
lie-bya1656
madamc1660
small girl1671
natural1674
convenient1676
lady of the lake1678
pure1688
tackle1688
sultana1703
kind girl1712
bosom-slave1728
pop1785
chère amie1792
fancy-woman1819
hetaera1820
fancy-piece1821
poplolly1821
secondary wife1847
other woman1855
fancy-girl1892
querida1902
wifelet1983
1560 Nice Wanton in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) II. 169 But ich tell your minion doll, by Gogs body.
1578 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) O Capitulum lepidissimum, o pleasaunt companion: O little pretie doll polle.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. B In louing of my Doll [sc. Dorothea], Thou bindst her fathers heart.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 165 Will you haue Doll Tere-sheet meete you. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 19 (stage direct.) Enter mistris Quickly, and Doll Tere-sheet. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iv. vi. sig. K1v Com Doll, Doll, disen me.
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 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. [Compare Scots Doroty, a doll, a puppet. (Jamieson)]
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun]
poppin1440
mammet1461
man of clouts, king of clouts1467
pup-barn?c1475
poppet1483
babe1530
poupe1530
baby1545
puppet1550
baban1570
puppy1659
doll1699
baby doll1725
dolly1790
doll-baby1807
babushka1948
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Doll..also a Child's Baby.
1747 D. Garrick Miss in her Teens ii. i I'll carry you and your doll too.
1764 K. O'Hara Midas i. v An infant's dol.
1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger VI. i. i. 4 As large as my doll's saucers.
1860 All Year Round 21 Apr. 35 A laborious class Who earn painful bread by fashioning dolls' eyes.
b. A dummy used by a ventriloquist, or by a puppeteer.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > ventriloquist > dummy
doll1893
dummy1936
1893 R. Ganthony Pract. Ventriloquism iv. 138 Hand Dolls to fit on hand (à la punch)... Knee Dolls 30 inch high, dressed any character.
1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 476/2 A conventional ventriloquist's dummy is a wooden doll with large glassy eyes, enormous shutter mouth, and teeth like tombstones.
1957 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 906/2 To operate, put the doll on the hand like a glove.
1967 Listener 23 Nov. 679/1 Voices that belong not to human beings but to ventriloquists' dolls.
3. transferred. 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 occasionally, a pleasant or attractive man. a doll's face, one conventionally pretty, but without life or expression. Now slang.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] > prettiness > specifically of woman > pretty girl or woman
primerolea1350
jolyvet1413
prim1509
nicebeceturc1520
bit of stuff?1553
nicebice1595
dabchick1612
rosebud1668
doll1778
living doll1785
a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823
a bit (also piece) of all right1895
bit of fluff1903
dolly1906
baby doll1908
cutiea1911
cutie-pie1920
kewpie1946
tchotchke1968
tchotchkeleh1985
1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xxiii. 197 As to the women, why they are mere dolls.
1841 R. W. Emerson Self-reliance in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 76 A sturdy lad..is worth a hundred of these city dolls.
1846 New Swell's Night Guide 29 in E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. Soldiers and their Dolls.
1860 All Year Round 17 Mar. 497 No worker cares to espouse a doll who costs such a deal of money to dress.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) II. 496/1 If it's a lady and gentleman, then we cries, ‘A toff and a doll!’
1894 S. Baring-Gould Queen of Love III. 145 You care for herself—for her doll's face and wig of yellow hair?
1903 R. L. McCardell Conversat. Chorus Girl 53 At Vassar..a bunch of society dolls..are teaching me high kicking.
1923 G. McKnight Eng. Words iv. 61 In the vocabulary of modern youth, chivalry is dead... A girl is..a chicken, a doll, [etc.].
1931 D. 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.
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) He is tall, handsome, and muscular. In short, he's a doll. E. Merman.
1967 I. Marder Paris Bit iii. 47 He came up to me..and shook hands warmly... ‘Max, doll! How are you?’
1971 Scope (S. Afr.) 19 Mar. 139/1 You don't have to do it, doll.
4. † a. A hairdresser's block. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > block
doll1699
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Doll, a wooden Block to make up Commodes upon.
b. = dolly n.1 4a.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > stick to stir washing
maiden1752
dolly1793
doll1841
peggy1860
dolly peg1879
maid1882
poting stick1892
potstick1922
1841 Peter Parley's Ann. 178 As I understand you get your living by washing, I send you a doll now..namely, a washing doll.
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.
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1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 216 Our new treble-bolt prevents this by keeping the doll's head firmly down in the slot in standing-breech.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
doll-face n.
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1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket iv. ii A doll-face blanch'd and bloodless.
doll-kind n.
doll-maker n.
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1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. I. ix. 261 In the Middle Age the doll-maker was called Coroplastes, and the dolls clothed like infants.
doll-pig n. (see 1.)
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1843 Peter Parley's Ann. 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.
b.
doll-like adj.
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1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) III. Introd. 461 The delicate doll-like baby..is her own.
doll-sized adj.
C2. † doll-common n. Obsolete (the Cheater's punk in Ben Jonson's Alchemist) a common woman, a prostitute.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
meretrixOE
whoreOE
soiled dovea1250
common womanc1330
putec1384
bordel womanc1405
putaina1425
brothelc1450
harlot?a1475
public womanc1510
naughty pack?1529
draba1533
cat1535
strange woman1535
stew1552
causey-paikera1555
putanie?1566
drivelling1570
twigger1573
punka1575
hackney1579
customer1583
commodity1591
streetwalker1591
traffic1591
trug1591
hackster1592
polecat1593
stale1593
mermaid1595
medlar1597
occupant1598
Paphian1598
Winchester goose1598
pagan1600
hell-moth1602
aunt1604
moll1604
prostitution1605
community1606
miss1606
night-worm1606
bat1607
croshabell1607
prostitute1607
pug1607
venturer1607
nag1608
curtal1611
jumbler1611
land-frigate1611
walk-street1611
doll-common1612
turn-up1612
barber's chaira1616
commonera1616
public commonera1616
trader1615
venturea1616
stewpot1616
tweak1617
carry-knave1623
prostibule1623
fling-dusta1625
mar-taila1625
night-shadea1625
waistcoateera1625
night trader1630
coolera1632
meretrician1631
painted ladya1637
treadle1638
buttock1641
night-walker1648
mob?1650
lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651
lady of pleasure1652
trugmullion1654
fallen woman1659
girlc1662
high-flyer1663
fireship1665
quaedama1670
small girl1671
visor-mask1672
vizard-mask1672
bulker1673
marmalade-madam1674
town miss1675
town woman1675
lady of the night1677
mawks1677
fling-stink1679
Whetstone whore1684
man-leech1687
nocturnal1693
hack1699
strum1699
fille de joie1705
market-dame1706
screw1725
girl of (the) town1733
Cytherean1751
street girl1764
monnisher1765
lady of easy virtue1766
woman (also lady) of the town1766
kennel-nymph1771
chicken1782
stargazer1785
loose fish1809
receiver general1811
Cyprian1819
mollya1822
dolly-mop1834
hooker1845
charver1846
tail1846
horse-breaker1861
professional1862
flagger1865
cocodette1867
cocotte1867
queen's woman1871
common prostitute1875
joro1884
geisha1887
horizontal1888
flossy1893
moth1896
girl of the pavement1900
pross1902
prossie1902
pusher1902
split-arse mechanic1903
broad1914
shawl1922
bum1923
quiff1923
hustler1924
lady of the evening1924
prostie1926
working girl1928
prostisciutto1930
maggie1932
brass1934
brass nail1934
mud kicker1934
scupper1935
model1936
poule de luxe1937
pro1937
chromo1941
Tom1941
pan-pan1949
twopenny upright1958
scrubber1959
slack1959
yum-yum girl1960
Suzie Wong1962
mattress1964
jamette1965
ho1966
sex worker1971
pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. B3v Thou shalt sit in triumph, And not be stil'd ʽDol common, but Dol proper, Dol singular. View more context for this quotation
1684 T. Otway Atheist v. 59 What, be a Doll-Common, follow the Camp.
dolls' hospital n. (also North American doll hospital) an establishment in which dolls are repaired and from which materials for doll-making can be bought.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific jobs are done > [noun] > place where dolls are repaired
dolls' hospital1917
society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > place where dolls are repaired
dolls' hospital1917
1917 Playthings Aug. 114/2 (advt.) Doll hospital. Attention French bisque heads.
1928 Donaldson's Port Elizabeth & Surburban Directory (S. Afr.) 113 Dolls' Hospital, Peel St., box 550.
1934 Cope's Directory: Worcs. 217/1 Bradburn A M..speciality, dolls' hospital.
1941 E. 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.
1949 Eastern Province & Midlands Directory (S. Afr.) 90/2 Dolls Hospital.
1964 Certificate of Incorporation (Registrar of Companies Eng. & Wales: Company no. 18240) 3 Sept. Doll's Hospital Limited.
1964 A. Butler Teaching Children Embroidery ii. 22 Hair may be obtained from any Doll's Hospital shop.
1971 J. 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.
doll-house n. (see doll's house n.).
doll-land n. the realm of dolls.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > state or world of dolls
dollhood18..
dolldom1860
doll-land1871
dollydom1882
1871 Monthly Packet Oct. 392 The inhabitants of Doll-land would never have recognized the difference between these home manufactures and the best Russian sables!
1959 Chambers's Encycl. XIII. 709/2 An interesting adjunct of doll-land is the doll's house.
Derivatives
ˈdollatry n. [after idolatry] worship of dolls.Apparently an isolated use.
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1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 261 To convince good Protestant mammas that ‘dollatry’ was not the result or the origin of Mariolatry.
ˈdolldom n. the world of dolls.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > state or world of dolls
dollhood18..
dolldom1860
doll-land1871
dollydom1882
1860 All Year Round 21 Apr. 35 Those limp enormities of dolldom with their pink wooden legs.
1893 Graphic 3 June 627/3 How a lady moving in the best circles of dolldom ought to be dressed.
ˈdollhood n. the state or condition of a doll, or of being like a doll.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > state or world of dolls
dollhood18..
dolldom1860
doll-land1871
dollydom1882
18.. T. Carlyle Let. There is much for her to do..her whole sex to deliver from the bondage of frivolity, dollhood, and imbecility.
1876 W. Bayliss Witness of Art 19 Radiant with all that real hair, and wax and rolling eyes can impart to dollhood.
ˈdollship n. the personality of a doll or doll-like woman.
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1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xx. 94 The man who should dare to say half I have written, of our Dollships, ought not to go away with his life.
Draft additions 1993
The target in the game of Aunt Sally; (hence) a score made by hitting this off its stand or ‘iron’. Cf. Aunt Sally n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > coconut shy, Aunt Sally, etc. > score
doll1975
1946 G. Tyrwhitt-Drake Eng. Circus & Fair Ground xvii. 202 Aunt Sally or the ‘Airy Mary’s; sticks, covered with coloured hair, with dolls' heads.]
1975 Games & Puzzles Apr. 12/2 In a single leg, or ‘horse’, it's possible for a team to throw down forty-eight Dolls—in fact no side has ever scored more than thirty-nine in one leg.
1983 Wantage & Grove Herald 27 Jan. 24/4 Bernard Stimpson was top man for Drayton with 9 dolls.
1985 Abingdon 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.].
2009 A. R. Taylor Played at Pub 62–3 Placing the 'doll' on its post at The Five Alls in the Cotswold village of Filkins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† dolln.2
Obsolete.
The palm of the hand.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > palm of
loof13..
palmc1300
doll1567
handhole1767
flat1828
palmar1890
c1460 Towneley Myst. (1836) 118 Haylle! put furthe thy dalle, I bryng the bot a balle.]
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vi. f. 73v Hir babes their pretie dolles did retch.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Niii/2 Ye Doll of the hand, vola.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
dolln.3
/dɒl/, U.S. /dɑl/, Scottish English /dɔl/α. 1700s dool (in sense 1), 1700s doul (in sense 1), 1700s– doll, 1800s dowl (in sense 1), 1800s– dall, 1900s djoll (Shetland).
β. 1900s– toll.
Scottish. Now rare.† 2. A large cake of sawdust and dried cow dung used as fuel. Obsolete. rare.
1. A (large) piece or portion of something; a lump, a chunk.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > (a) great quantity or amount
felec825
muchc1230
good wone1297
plentyc1300
bushelc1374
sight1390
mickle-whata1393
forcea1400
manynessa1400
multitudea1400
packc1400
a good dealc1430
greata1450
sackful1484
power1489
horseloadc1500
mile1508
lump1523
a deal?1532
peckc1535
heapa1547
mass1566
mass1569
gallon1575
armful1579
cart-load1587
mickle1599
bushelful1600–12
a load1609
wreck1612
parisha1616
herd1618
fair share1650
heapa1661
muchness1674
reams1681
hantle1693
mort1694
doll?1719
lift1755
acre1759
beaucoup1760
ton1770
boxload1795
boatload1807
lot1811
dollop1819
swag1819
faggald1824
screed1826
Niagara1828
wad1828
lashings1829
butt1831
slew1839
ocean1840
any amount (of)1848
rake1851
slather1857
horde1860
torrent1864
sheaf1865
oodlesa1867
dead load1869
scad1869
stack1870
jorum1872
a heap sight1874
firlot1883
oodlings1886
chunka1889
whips1888
God's quantity1895
streetful1901
bag1917
fid1920
fleetful1923
mob1927
bucketload1930
pisspot1944
shitload1954
megaton1957
mob-o-ton1975
gazillion1978
buttload1988
shit ton1991
?1719 A. Ramsay in A. Ramsay & W. Hamilton Familiar Epist. 22 A Doul of rost Beef pypin het.
1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 43 I hae a sonsy dool o' cheese.
1883 W. D. Latto Bodkin Papers xvii. 83 We wad be lickin' oor lips ower a dowl o' whaule's blubber.
1949 Banffshire Jrnl. 1 Nov. 2/4 A doll o' dirt at ilka door And most unceevil people.
ΚΠ
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. I. 294/2 Dall, a large cake, made of sawdust mixed with the dung of cows, &c. used by poor people for fuel, Angus.
3. Excrement, dung; a piece of excrement, a turd.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun]
gorec725
mixeOE
quedeeOE
turdeOE
dungOE
worthinga1225
dirta1300
drega1300
naturea1325
fen1340
ordurec1390
fimea1475
merd1486
stercory1496
avoidc1503
siegec1530
fex1540
excrement1541
hinder-fallings1561
gong1562
foil1565
voiding1577
pilgrim-salvec1580
egestion1583
shita1585
sir-reverence1592
purgament1597
filinga1622
faecesa1625
exclusion1646
faecality1653
tantadlin1654
surreverence1655
draught1659
excrementitiousness1660
jakes1701
old golda1704
dejection1728
dejecture1731
shitea1733
feculence1733
doll1825
crap1846
excreta1857
excretes1883
hockey1886
dejecta1887
job1899
number two1902
mess1903
ming1923
do1930
tomtit1930
pony1931
No. 21937
dog shit1944
Shinola1944
big job1945
biggie1953
doo-doo1954
doings1957
gick1959
pooh1960
pooh-pooh1962
dooky1965
poopy1970
whoopsie1973
pucky1980
jobbie1981
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. I. 330/2 Doll, dung; but applied exclusively to that of pigeons; called ‘Dows'-Doll’, Banffs.
1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 274 Horse dung, [Caithness] (horse) dalls, [Moray, Aberdeen] (horse) tolls,..Sheep's dung, [Wigtown] toll.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
dolln.4
/dɒl/, U.S. /dɑl/ Horse Racing.
A hurdle used as a barrier (see quot. 1942).
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1942 L. V. Berrey & M. 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.
1958 J. Hislop From Start to Finish vi. 49 The best going is always nearest to the bushes or dolls marking out the gallop.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† dollv.1
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > heat or make hot [verb (transitive)] > make lukewarm
lukea1400
dollc1440
leepa1522
tepefy1656
chilla1825
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 126/1 Dollyd, sum what hotte, tepefactus. Dollyn' ale, or oþer drynke, tepefacio.
2. To render stale or vapid, to deaden (drink).
ΚΠ
1483 Cath. Angl. 103/2 Dollyd as wyne or ale, defunctus, vapidus.
1508 Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 268 Loke ye gyue no persone noo dowled drynke.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 48 Dowl'd or Dull'd, deadened as stale liquor.
Derivatives
ˈdolling n.
ΚΠ
c1490 Promptorium Parvulorum 126/1 Dollynge (MS. K), Doolynge (MS. H), tepefactio.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Dolling, warming.
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Dolling, warming.
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Dolling, (O[ld Word]) warming. [So in Bailey.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
dollv.2
/dɒl/, U.S. /dɑl/ colloquial.
transitive. To dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. Also intransitive (for reflexive) and transferred.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (intransitive)]
trick?1532
mundify1568
prune1568
to finify it1586
prink1591
brisk1592
tiff1700
fetish1735
beautify1777
adonize1781
fix1783
smart1794
smarten1813
titivate1835
primp1887
doll1916
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautify (the person) [verb (transitive)]
highta1200
atiffe?c1225
tiff?c1225
wyndre?a1366
kembc1386
picka1393
prunec1395
tifta1400
varnishc1405
finea1425
tifflea1425
quaint1484
embuda1529
trick?1532
trick1545
dill1548
tricka1555
prink1573
smug1588
sponge1588
smudge1589
perk1590
primpc1590
sponge1592
tricksy1598
prime1616
sprug1622
briska1625
to sleek upa1625
trickify1678
prim1688
titivate1705
dandify1823
beflounce1824
befop1866
spry1878
lustrify1886
dude1899
doll1916
tart1938
youthify1945
pansy1946
spiv1947
dolly1958
zhuzh1970
1916 H. L. Wilson Somewhere in Red Gap ix. 378 Jeff said he'd also doll up in his dress suit and get shaved.
1921 Public Opinion 9 Sept. 252/1 Keturah dolled herself up a little but not too much.
1927 M. Eiker Over 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.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. xiii. 216 He supposed his fellow-guests were ‘dolling up’ (as young Michael would put it) for this ball.
1932 E. 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.
1955 ‘N. Shute’ Requiem for Wren iii. 67 She could put on her Number Ones and doll herself up smartly.
1959 J. Fleming Miss Bones ii. 18 Change the frames over..doll them up—you know the sort of thing that makes them sell.
Derivatives
ˈdolled adj. (also 'dolled-up)
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > insipidity > [adjective]
wallowc897
smatchless?c1225
unsavoury?c1225
fresha1398
savourlessa1398
wearish1398
wershed1398
fond?c1430
unsavoured1435
palled1440
mildc1450
walsh1513
wallowish1548
dead1552
waterish1566
cold1585
flatten1594
seasonless1595
wersha1599
blown1600
flash1601
fatuous1608
tasteless1611
flat1617
insipid1620
ingustable1623
flashy1625
flatted1626
saltless1633
gustless1636
remiss1655
rheumatical1655
untasteable1656
vapid1656
exolete1657
distasted1662
vappous1673
insulse1676
toothless1679
mawkisha1697
intastable1701
waugh1703
impoignant1733
flavourless1736
instimulating1740
deadish1742
mawky1755
brineless1791
wishy-washy1791
keestless1802
shilpit1814
wish-washy1814
sapidless1821
silent1826
slushy1839
bland1878
spendsavour1879
wish-wash1896
dolled1917
spiceless1980
the world > food and drink > drink > types or qualities of beverage > [adjective] > stale or flat
dead1552
blown1600
flat1617
dolled1917
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > showily or fancily dressed
gaya1387
fresha1393
jollyc1405
lustyc1412
prankedc1550
well-attireda1569
prank1575
conceited1579
dressed1641
gaily dressed1730
bedressed1863
tricked1869
done-up1911
dolled1917
1917 C. Mathewson Second Base Sloan xix. 261 He was..all dolled up in fancy togs.
1923 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape v. 46 All dis is too clean and quiet and dolled up.
1928 Daily Express 11 Sept. 5/5 The look of bitter contempt and disgust that glittered out of the dolled-up servitor's eyes.
1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xxii. 234 A dolled-up blonde had called at his office.
ˈdolling n. (also 'dolling-up)
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > [noun]
tiffing?c1225
hightinga1387
prickinga1425
perching?1578
pranking1580
primpingc1590
sprunkinga1685
prinking1687
smugging1736
titivation1805
beautifying1836
prink1869
dolling1906
makeover1966
1906 Evening Standard 31 Aug. 3/3 The time fellows spent in dolling up before taking a wheel.
1921 H. C. Witwer Leather Pushers iv. 93 He..gives himself a swift dollin' up before the mirror.
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