Dolly

/ˈdɑli/ · noun

Meaning

(childish, colloquial) A doll..

Definitions by Sense

1. (childish, colloquial) A doll.
2. (cooking) A roughly cylindrical wooden object used as a base when molding pie crust.
3. A contrivance for stirring:
4. A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet.
5. In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver.
6. A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building.
7. A small truck without means of steering, to be slipped under a load.
8. An unpowered vehicle (trailer) designed for connection to a tractor unit, truck or prime mover vehicle, with strong traction power.

Example Sentences

‘He pushed one of my dolly’s eyes in,’ sobbed Dora, hugging her dolly as she replied.

A, is the steam or air cylinder for forcing the dolly B, hard against the rivet head while rivetting: when used for making rivets the dolly B, is unshipped, and the rivet heading apparatus substituted.

But really you get your money from selling things — that's your line, and your Dad's isn't it? Using sexy dollies to con money out of people who've had to work for it. Well my daughter's not just a sugar-plum fairy to titillate men's fantasies, you know.

This glorious collection should be passed around clubland as a textbook study in making a seamless transition from being a disco dolly to a serious pop vocalist.

Spotlight on the other hand is remarkable for prices and skirt lengths to suit the teenyboppers[…] Appeal: to a lunchtime horde of date-going dollies who cannot really afford another dress.

There’s 2d. a week to pay for 1s. at a dolly, and perhaps an old rug left for it; if it’s very hard weather, the rug must be taken at night time, or we are starved with the cold. It sometimes has to be put into the dolly again next morning, and then there’s 2d. to pay for it for the day.

Referring to the "hero of the day," No. 92220, Mr. Hanks acceded that she was not of the Great Western breed, but they had done their best to make up for that by "dollying her up in good old Western colours and conferring upon her the finest honour we can—the halo or crown of Swindon, the copper top to her chimney."

Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.

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Word Forms

• dollies
• dollie
• dollying
• dollied
• more dolly
• most dolly
• dally

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