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doll1 noundoll2 verb dolldoll1 /dɒl $ dɑːl, dɒːl/ ●●● S3 noun   doll1Origin: 1500-1600 The female name Doll, from Dorothy - A Cabbage Patch doll dries on the clothesline.
- During the intervening seven years, he has become replacement therapy for little girls who have just donated their dolls to Oxfam.
- I done buried people with Bibles, canes, crutches, guitars, radios, baby dolls...
- Other nights, I listened to pneumatic tubes, and I was a doll on a shelf in a cavernous department store.
- Then he took out one of those dolls, each piece of which unscrews to reveal a smaller doll within.
- Then she got some toy bricks and built a little house for the mummy doll and a little house for the daddy doll.
- This rag doll treatment of our things is great fun for him.
NOUN► baby· Fifi had already decided on her baby doll and Carla was going through her private box of jewelry and mementos.· A few minutes later, as she continued this type of play the baby doll got scared while sleeping.· Ben will have to be told that if he takes his baby doll outside he will be ostracized. ► rag· This rag doll treatment of our things is great fun for him.· Maddened by the limp rag doll banging against his legs, he veered to the left.· This was how he remembered her, rather than as the cancer-pained rag doll he had nursed until her death.· He grabbed her collar, dragging her clear and across the mud like a life-size rag doll.· The second was propped, ungainly as a rag doll, against the far wall.· She looked like a rag doll.· Can't you see how obscene it is to get him dressed up and wheel him around like a big rag doll?· That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed, limp and helpless as a rag doll. VERB► dress· As a child she preferred playing games with boys to dressing up dolls.· She was engaged in dressing a doll for the bazaar which loomed nearer and nearer.· You ought to be dressing dolls Like other sisters. ► hold· She never held her doll in her arms as a little girl.· Despite other examples around her and recommendations, Monica held her dolls and children as she had been held as an infant.· Her own four daughters held their dolls in a like manner when they first began to play with them. ► play· It plays with dolls but can not get interested.· She kept to herself, and played with her Barbie doll during break.· After the film, each child was left alone in a room to play with a Bobo doll.· Since fathers rarely have experience baby-sitting or playing with dolls, most lack the familiarity with babies that their wives have.· For example, she plays with dolls and pretends they are real people.· She would play dolls with another girl, for example.· In later years I always played with the doll alone, never sharing her with my friends. 1 [countable] a child’s toy that looks like a small person or baby:  a small wooden doll2[countable] old-fashioned informal a word meaning an attractive young woman – now usually considered offensive: Hey, doll, why don’t you get me a cup of coffee?3[singular] American English informal a very nice person: Thanks, you’re a doll.doll1 noundoll2 verb dolldoll2 verb VERB TABLEdoll |
| Present | I, you, we, they | doll | | he, she, it | dolls | | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | dolled | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have dolled | | he, she, it | has dolled | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had dolled | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will doll | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have dolled |
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| Present | I | am dolling | | he, she, it | is dolling | | you, we, they | are dolling | | Past | I, he, she, it | was dolling | | you, we, they | were dolling | | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been dolling | | he, she, it | has been dolling | | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been dolling | | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be dolling | | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been dolling |
- I doll myself up at dusk.
to put on clothes for a special occasion► dress up/get dressed up to put on clothes that are suitable for a special or formal occasion: · Do we have to get dressed up to go to this restaurant?· It's an informal party, so you don't need to dress up. ► doll yourself up/get dolled up informal to put on your best clothes and pay a lot of attention to your appearance, usually for a special occasion - used especially about women: · You don't need to doll yourself up. It's only my sister who's coming to dinner. doll yourself up phrasal verb informal if a woman dolls herself up, she puts on attractive clothes and make-up, especially before going out to a party, club etc: Maggie was in her room, dolling herself up.be/get dolled up (for something) The girls were all dolled up for a party. |