dollen
Meaning
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- (intransitive) to tomfool, to fool around, to frolick, to play
- (intransitive) to mess with, take the mikey out of someone
- (transitive) to stun (cattle) with a blow
- (intransitive, obsolete) to rage, act outrageously
Concepts
Synonyms
Frequency
Hyphenated as
dol‧len
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdɔlə(n)/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch dollen, dullen. Equivalent to dol + -en, next to older dolen.
New
dol
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- crazy, silly, mad
- mindless, reckless; irate
- stripped, turning without gripping (of screws and screwthreads, taps, keys &c.)
New
dolle
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- (attributive, feminine, form-of, masculine, singular) inflection of dol:
- (attributive, definite, form-of, neuter, singular) inflection of dol:
- (attributive, form-of, plural) inflection of dol:
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