doll

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Mehitable trundled her doll-carriage carefully; once in a while she looked in to see if the doll was all right Isn't that carriage kind of heavy for you to drag all alone?"

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  1. noun A child's usually small toy having the likeness of a human.
  2. noun A pretty child.
  3. noun Slang An attractive person.

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toy ·  statue ·  baby ·  furniture ·  cat ·  shoe ·  costume ·  clothe ·  vase ·  one ·  slipper ·  monkey

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doll:   dolls
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. From Doll, nickname for Dorothy.

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  1. A general use of Doll, Dolly, a woman's name, an abbreviation of Dorothy, from French Dorothèe, from Latin Dorothea, from Greek Δωροθέα, feminine of Δωρόθεος, literally gift of God, from δῶρον, a gift (from διδόναι, give: see date), + θεός, God. Theodore, feminine Theodora, is composed of the same elements reversed. Cf. doll.
  2. In childish speech common also in the diminutive form dolly; prob. a particular use of Doll, Dolly, a familiar diminutive of the proper name Dorothy. See doll, and cf. dolly, dolly, Cf. also jack, as the name of a toy. The common explanation of doll as an abbreviation of idoll, idol, is certainly wrong. There is nothing to connect the word with East Friesic dolske, a wooden doll, dokke, dok, a doll: see duck.
  3. Scots; origin obscure.
 

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