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dollhood

dollhood noun: the state or period of being a doll.

Noun

dollhood (uncountable)

  1. The state or period of being a doll.
    • […] one is now and then just perceptibly annoyed by the persistent sentimentality with which the poet reduces his personae, not indeed merely to terms of childhood, but more exactly to terms of dollhood.1919, The Athenæum, page 1004

Origin of dollhood

From doll + -hood.

Questions about dollhood

What does dollhood mean?
Dollhood means the state or period of being a doll.
What part of speech is dollhood?
Dollhood is a noun.

Words near dollhood in the dictionary

  1. Dollerys
  2. Dolley
  3. Dolleys
  4. dollface
  5. dollfaces
  6. dollhood
  7. dollhouse
  8. dollhouselike
  9. dollhouses
  10. dollie
  11. dollied

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