# doll
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɒl/
* (General American) IPA: /dɑl/, /dɔl/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (Canada) IPA: [dɒːɫ]
* (General Australian) IPA: /dɔl/
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒl
* Homophone: dole (doll–dole merger)

### Etymology 1

From Doll, pet form of the given name Dorothy.
The drug sense was coined and popularized by coined by American writer Jacqueline Susann in 1966 through his book Valley of the Dolls (1966) or the film Valley of the Dolls (1967).

#### Noun

doll (plural dolls or (Internet slang) dollz)
* A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
    Hyponym: action figure
* (slang) An attractive young woman.
** 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman: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.
* (US, Australia, dated) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
** 2008, Stephen King, Willa:"They didn't sell cigarettes where you were, doll?" Palmer asked.
* (US, dated) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
** 2017, Chunk in "Skate-lebrity", The ZhuZhus
    Ow! These things are defective. Pipsqueak, be a doll, I need a new pair, pronto!
* The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
* (rail transport) A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
** 1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Peculiar Distant Signals on L.N.E.R”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:The signals are on a three-doll bracket post; one doll carries two [signal] arms, one above the other.
* (slang) A barbiturate or amphetamine pill.
** 1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 227:Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.

##### Derived terms

* action doll
* apple doll
* babushka doll
* baby doll
* baby-doll dress
* baby doll dress
* bisque doll
* blow-up doll
* bobble-head doll syndrome
* China doll
* china doll
* corn doll
* Dharma doll
* dolldom
* dollface
* dollhood
* dollhouse, doll's house
* dollified
* dollish
* dollkind
* doll-less
* doll-like
* dollmaker
* dollmaking
* dollship
* doll's pram
* doll up
* dolly
* Dutch doll
* fashion doll
* fuckdoll
* glove doll
* harvest doll
* honeydoll
* Ken doll
* kewpie doll
* love doll
* matrioshka doll
* matryoshka doll
* nesting doll
* paper doll
* Paris doll
* pincushion doll
* porcelain doll
* rag doll
* rapedoll
* Russian doll
* sex doll
* voodoo doll
* Waldorf doll
* wax doll

##### Descendants

* → Kashubian: dolka (Canada, United States, New Zealand)

##### Translations
#### Verb

doll (third-person singular simple present dolls, present participle dolling, simple past and past participle dolled)
* Synonym of doll up(clarification of this definition is needed)

#### See also

* golliwog
* puppet
* teddy, teddy bear

### Etymology 2

Probably variant of archaic dool (“boundary marker”).

#### Noun

doll (plural dolls)
* A temporary barrier used in horse racing.
** 1885, William Day, The Racehorse in Training, page 87:On a beautiful spring morning, after the “dolls and chains” had been removed to allow the horses room to pass through, in galloping “across the flat,” […]

#### Verb

doll (third-person singular simple present dolls, present participle dolling, simple past and past participle dolled)
* (UK, transitive) To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).
** 2023 November 24, “Sean Quinlan: I get the frustration at fences being dolled off because of low sun - but trust jockeys when we say it's not safe”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

### Etymology 3

A shortening of dollar.

#### Noun

doll (plural dolls)
* (US, obsolete) A dollar.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

doll (uncountable)
* Obsolete form of dal.

### Etymology 5

Possibly same as dull (from which Middle English doll occurs).

#### Verb

doll (third-person singular simple present dolls, present participle dolling, simple past and past participle dolled)
* (transitive, obsolete) To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull. [ca. 1440]

### References

* ↑ “doll$^1$”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “doll n.$^2$”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
* ↑ “doll$^2$”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “doll”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].
* “doll, v.$^1$”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Further reading

* “doll n.$^1$”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

### Anagrams

* LOL'd, LOLd, lol'd, lold

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin dōlium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdoʎ]

### Noun

doll m (plural dolls)
* stream, jet
* pitcher, vase

#### Derived terms

* a doll

### Further reading

* “doll” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## German
### Etymology

Occasionally found in older texts, but chiefly introduced to standard German during the 20th century from Central German and German Low German dialects, from northern Middle High German dol and Middle Low German dol, from Old Saxon dol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz. Doublet of toll (“great; crazy”), which compare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɔl/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

doll (strong nominative masculine singular doller, comparative doller, superlative am dollsten)
* (informal) firm, hard, forceful, strong (of actions, also of emotions)
    Der Schlag war nicht doll, aber er hat mich genau auf die Nase getroffen. ― The blow wasn't hard, but it hit me right in the nose.
* (colloquial, chiefly in negation or sarcastically) good, great, satisfactory
    Ich geb ja zu, dass es keine dolle Idee war. ― Well, I do admit it wasn't a very good idea.
* (colloquial, with Ding) extraordinary, remarkable
    Na, das is’ ja ’n dolles Ding! ― Now, that is some news!

#### Usage notes

* The word is readily attestable in written representations of spoken and informal German. The sense “firm, hard” is now also found occasionally in more standard prose, chiefly as an adverb (see below).

#### Related terms

* toll

### Adverb

doll
* (informal) firmly, hard, forcefully, vehemently, strong (of actions, also of emotions)
    Du musst doller drücken, sonst geht es nicht. ― You need to push harder, otherwise it won't work.
** 1995, “Meh' Bier”, in Auf einem Auge blöd, performed by Fettes Brot:Wir feiern laut und doll bis alle auf den Tischen springen / Und am Höhepunkt der Party fangen wir laut an zu singen.We party hard and loudly until everyone climbs the tables / And in the party's climax we start singing loudly.

### Further reading

* “doll” in Duden online
* “doll” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Plautdietsch
### Etymology

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon dol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz.

### Adjective

doll
* mad, angry, furious
* rabid