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doll up

doll up verb: to dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display).

Verb

doll up (third-person singular simple present dolls up, present participle dolling up, simple past and past participle dolled up)

  1. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display)
    • She's all dolled up with nowhere to go.
    • Jem looked at her clothes. "You wouldn’t get far dolled up like that."1970, Noel Streatfeild, Thursday’s Child

doll up meaning in Bengali

doll up in Bengali

চমৎকার, জমকালোভাবে সাজগোজ করা, সজ্জিত করা

Forms of doll up

third-person singular presentdolls up
present participledolling up
past participledolled up
pastdolled up

Origin of doll up

From doll (noun).

Questions about doll up

What does doll up mean?
Doll up means to dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display).
What is doll up in Bengali?
Doll up in Bengali is চমৎকার, জমকালোভাবে সাজগোজ করা, সজ্জিত করা. See Doll up meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is doll up?
Doll up is a verb.
What is the past tense of doll up?
The past tense of doll up is dolled up.

Words near doll up in the dictionary

  1. Dolj
  2. Doljești
  3. Dolkart
  4. Dolkarts
  5. doll
  6. doll up
  7. doll's eye
  8. doll's eye sign
  9. doll's eyes
  10. doll's house
  11. doll's houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doll up (page history and authors); doll up (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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