dolls

Noun

doll (plural dolls or (Internet slang) dollz)

1. A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.
   • "A thousand dollars are money, my father used to say when he drove fat oxen to market," replied John Wilde, in a mocking tone; "but it will not leave my hands for that shabby price; and, for my own part, it may ornament the foot of my daughter's doll."1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 316
2. (slang) An attractive young 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.1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
   1. (slang, LGBTQ slang) A transgender woman or transfeminine person, especially one that has a highly sexual and feminine personal style.
   2. (slang, LGBTQ slang) A transgender woman or transfeminine person, in general.
3. (Australia, Scotland, US, dated) A term of endearment
   • Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!”1952 September 29, “"BOP VOCABULARY" section, inside of "That Crazy Bop Joke Craze"”, in LIFE Magazine, New York, U.S., page 69

   Synonyms:

   darling, sweetheart

4. (US, slightly dated) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.
   • Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?

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