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Another word for doll

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Noun

  1. A person regarded as physically attractive

      1. A quality or combination of qualities that gives pleasure to the mind or senses and is often associated with properties such as harmony of form or color, proportion, authenticity, and originality.
      2. A quality or feature that is most effective, gratifying, or telling:
      3. An outstanding or conspicuous example:
      1. (Person, proper) A feminine name
      2. A popular, attractive girl or woman, especially the most attractive one of a group:
      1. Term of fond address.
      2. A lovely object.
      3. A beautiful person, especially a woman.
      1. An astounding, unexpected event.
      2. (Informal) A remarkably attractive, excellent, etc. person or thing
      3. (colloquial; variant spelling stunna) Specifically, a woman of stunning beauty (often hyperbolically).
      1. A baby; infant
      2. (Informal) Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.
      3. (Slang) A young woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
      1. (Informal) A large piece; a chunk:
      2. A sexually attractive man, esp. one who is large and well-built
      3. (Slang) A physically attractive man, usually with a well-developed physique.
      1. (Slang) A very attractive or striking person or thing
      2. (Sports) A victory in boxing in which one's opponent is unable to rise from the canvas within a specified time after being knocked down or is judged too injured to continue.
      3. The act of winning a boxing match in this way:
      1. (Slang) A handsome person; esp., a pretty woman
      2. One having a specific look, appearance.
      1. A small ornamental button mounted on a short post for insertion through an eyelet, as on a dress shirt.
      2. Any of a series of small knobs or rounded nailheads used to ornament a surface, as of leather
      3. An upright post in the framework of a wall for supporting sheets of lath, drywall, or similar material.
    See also:

    beautiful

Idioms:

    doll up

  1. To dress in formal or special clothing

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Another word for doll

Noun
      1. (Slang) Any person or thing
      2. An adult or young person who behaves in an infantile way.
      3. (Slang) An object of personal concern or interest:
      1. A toy representing a human figure; a doll.
      2. One whose behavior is determined by the will of others:
      3. A small figure of a person or animal, having a cloth body and hollow head, designed to be fitted over and manipulated by the hand.
      1. Impression or appearance made:
      2. (Rhetoric) figure of speech
      3. The shape or form of a human body:
      1. (Now Rare) A little man; dwarf
      2. A life-size anatomical model used as a teaching aid
      3. An anatomical model of the human body for use in teaching.
      1. A piece of sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work in bronze, marble, etc. is to be made
      2. A person employed to display clothes by wearing them
      3. A schematic description or representation of something, especially a system or phenomenon, that accounts for its properties and is used to study its characteristics:
      1. A portrait, statue, or the like, esp. of a person; likeness; often, a crude representation of a despised person
      2. A crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group.
      1. (Computers) A character or other piece of information entered into a computer only to meet prescribed conditions, such as word length, and having no effect on operations.
      2. A figure of a person or an animal manipulated by a ventriloquist.
      3. A set of bound blank pages used as a model to show the size and general appearance of a book being published.
      1. A small locomotive, as for use in a railroad yard or on a construction site.
      2. (Film) A specialized piece of film equipment resembling a little cart on which a camera is mounted.
      3. Such a platform as used by one working underneath a motor vehicle.
      1. (Colloquial) A child.
      2. (Informal) A little child
      3. (Dated) A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth.
    See also:

    toy

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Sentence Examples

  • There was a little girl of about six or seven playing with a doll on the floor.

  • She had a most beautiful doll given her.

  • To them, she was an exotic little doll with her huge, gem-hued eyes, black hair, and toned hour-glass shape.

  • Already she began to see quite plainly the little elves in their tall pointed hats, dancing down the dusky alleys, and peeping from between the bushes, and they seemed to come nearer and nearer; and she stretched her hands up towards the tree in which the doll sat and they laughed, and pointed their fingers at her.

  • "Like a doll," the second agreed.

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