doll
/dɑl/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.06 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
noun
A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
Example Sentences
- ""A thousand dollars are money, my father used to say when he drove fat oxen to market," replied John Wilde, in a mocking tone; "but it will not leave my hands for that shabby price; and, for my own part, it may ornament the foot of my daughter's doll.""
- "Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you."
- "Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”"
- ""They didn't sell cigarettes where you were, doll?" Palmer asked."
- "Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?"
- "Ow! These things are defective. Pipsqueak, be a doll, I need a new pair, pronto!"
Etymology
From Doll, pet form of the given name Dorothy. Etymology 1, noun sense 7 was coined and popularized by American writer Jacqueline Susann in 1966 through her book Valley of the Dolls (1966) and the film adaptation Valley of the Dolls (1967).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: doll, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɑl/
- British English: /dɒl/
Usage
- Slang
- Australian usage
- American usage
- Dated
- British usage
- Transitive verb
- Obsolete
- Uncountable