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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdolldoll1 /dɒl $ dɑːl, dɒːl/ ●くろまる●くろまる●くろまる S3 noun 1 Image of doll [countable]DG a child’s toy that looks like a small person or baby a small wooden doll2 [countable] old-fashioned informalWOMANWOMAN a word meaning an attractive young woman – now usually considered offensive Hey, doll, why don’t you get me a cup of coffee?3 [singular]NICE American English informal a very nice person Thanks, you’re a doll.Examples from the Corpusdoll• Other nights, I listened to pneumatic tubes, and I was a doll on a shelf in a cavernous department store.• I done buried people with Bibles, canes, crutches, guitars, radios, baby dolls...• Then she got some toy bricks and built a little house for the mummy doll and a little house for the daddy doll.• A Cabbage Patch doll dries on the clothesline.• This rag doll treatment of our things is great fun for him.• During the intervening seven years, he has become replacement therapy for little girls who have just donated their dolls to Oxfam.• Then he took out one of those dolls, each piece of which unscrews to reveal a smaller doll within.dolldoll2 verb → doll yourself up → See Verb table Examples from the Corpusdoll• I doll myself up at dusk.Origin doll1 (1500-1600) The female name Doll, from Dorothy
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doll
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they doll
he, she, it dolls
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they dolled
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have dolled
he, she, it has dolled
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had dolled
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will doll
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have dolled
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Continuous Form
Present
I am dolling
he, she, it is dolling
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you, we, they are dolling
Past
I, he, she, it was dolling
you, we, they were dolling
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have been dolling
he, she, it has been dolling
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been dolling
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be dolling
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been dolling
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