doll

Meaning

Noun

1. A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
2. (slang) An attractive young woman.
3. (Australia, Scotland, US) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
4. (US) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.
5. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
6. A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
7. (slang) A barbiturate or amphetamine pill.
8. A transgender woman or transfeminine person.

Verb

Synonym of doll up

Verb

To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).

Verb

To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull.

Synonyms

puppet

chick

toy

dolly

bird

🐦

marionette

babe

dame

dummy

wench

skirt

effigy

titivate

tog

figure

doll up

baby

👶

little doll

prim

prink

moppet

ornament

perk

plump

poppet

prank

primp

pussy

😺

stuffed

swollen

trim

vestal virgin

baby-faced

preen oneself

young bird

slang for cunt

toy man

tog up

doll-like

dolled-up woman

adorn

bird

🐦

array

attire

beautify

bespangle

bimbo

caparison

crowded

deck

Translations

Puppe

bambola

poupée

muñeca

κούκλα

muñeco

pop

boneca

pupa

👧

tonnetje

nina

boneco

marionnette

kukla

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɒl/

Etymology

From Doll, pet form of the given name Dorothy.
The drug sense was coined and popularized by by American writer Jacqueline Susann in 1966 through her book Valley of the Dolls (1966) or the film Valley of the Dolls (1967).