doll
noun /dɒl/
/dɑːl/
- a child’s toy in the shape of a person, especially a baby or a child
enlarge image- a rag doll (= one made out of cloth)
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- tiny
- china
- …
- play with
- doll house
- doll’s house
- (North American English, informal) a kind person
- Be a doll and help me out.
- He was a doll to work with.
- (especially North American English, old-fashioned, informal) a word used to describe a pretty or attractive woman, now often considered offensive
- She's quite a doll.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a mistress): pet form of the given name Dorothy. The sense ‘small model of a human figure’ dates from the late 17th cent.