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dolling up

dolling up is the present participle and gerund of doll up.

Meaning of doll up

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.

Questions about dolling up

What is dolling up the present participle and gerund of?
Dolling up is the present participle and gerund of doll up.

Words near dolling up in the dictionary

  1. dollified
  2. Dollimore
  3. Dollin
  4. dolliness
  5. dolling
  6. dolling up
  7. Dollinger
  8. Dollingers
  9. Dollis Hill
  10. dollish
  11. dollishly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dolling up (page history and authors); doll up (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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