Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small, fat-cheeked, wide-eyed doll with a curl of hair on top of the head.
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- noun A doll of the Kewpie brand, or any similar doll or depiction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Not to mention the Obamas, plus Sarah Palin if you like the republican kewpie-doll look.
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Kewpies have always been in m life, my parents had kewpie bride & groom on their wedding cake! every time I was sick (I had double pppneumonia 4 times) I ate Jell-o and played with my kewpie dolls!
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Mary Bancroft, one of his operatives in Switzerland, thought he looked more like a “kewpie doll” than a glamorous spymaster.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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It's really hard sometimes because I have a damaged ligament in my leg that I suffered while in Bangkok when I worked for a company that made kewpie dolls -- I made the eyes.
Cocoa Popps: I AM: The Film, the Message and... Water Bottles? Cocoa Popps 2011
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Kewpies have always been in m life, my parents had kewpie bride & groom on their wedding cake! every time I was sick (I had double pppneumonia 4 times) I ate Jell-o and played with my kewpie dolls!
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I had to know what the label said on the bottle Upper-Right kewpie was holding.
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Mary Bancroft, one of his operatives in Switzerland, thought he looked more like a “kewpie doll” than a glamorous spymaster.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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I had to know what the label said on the bottle Upper-Right kewpie was holding.
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It's really hard sometimes because I have a damaged ligament in my leg that I suffered while in Bangkok when I worked for a company that made kewpie dolls -- I made the eyes.
Cocoa Popps: I AM: The Film, the Message and... Water Bottles? Cocoa Popps 2011
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Impassivity is the boy's favored affect, and it's a comfortable fit with the malign calm of the crime family that takes him in three uncles, one of them only a few years older than he is, and their mother, Smurf, a bleached-blonde virago with the face of an aging kewpie doll.
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