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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A child's usually small toy having the likeness of a human.
  2. n. A pretty child.
  3. n. Slang An attractive person.
  4. n. Slang A woman.
  5. n. Slang A sweetheart or darling.
  6. n. Slang A helpful or obliging person.
  7. doll up Slang To dress oneself smartly and often ostentatiously, especially for a special occasion.
  8. doll up Slang To add embellishing details to in order to make much more attractive.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A sweetheart; a mistress; a paramour; a doxy. Also dolly.
  2. n. A puppet representing a child, usually a little girl (but also sometimes a boy or a man, as a soldier, etc.), used as a toy by children, especially by girls.
  3. n. Dung, especially of pigeons.
  4. n. A large cake of sawdust mixed with dung, used for fuel.
  5. n. A large lump.
  6. n. A simple contrivance on a Jacquard loom which indicates to the weaver that something is wrong with the action of the pattern-card cylinder. Also called detector and blockhead-board.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A toy in the form of human.
  2. n. informal Used to refer to or address a woman.
  3. n. Australia A term of endearment (ie. darling).
  4. v. intransitive To cause to be more beautiful of attractive. See also doll up.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a small, usually flexible figure representing a human being, especially a toy baby for a little girl; a child's puppet.
  2. n. slang an attractive woman or girl.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small replica of a person; used as a toy
  2. n. informal terms for a (young) woman

Etymologies

  1. From Doll, a popular pet form of Dorothy. (Wiktionary)
  2. From Doll, nickname for Dorothy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • qroqqa What we need is a historical reverse dictionary of meanings. 'Doll' was only used in the modern sense from about 1700 (and was cant at first); 'poppet' was used in this sense from about the fifteenth century; so what did English children play with before? Aug 22, 2008

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