From Doll, a popular pet form of Dorothy.

• (RP) IPA: /dɒl/
• (America) IPA: /dɑl/, /dɔl/
• (Canada) IPA: [dɒːɫ]
• (Australia) IPA: /dɔl/

doll

1. A toy in the form of a human.

   Hyponym: action figure

2. (slang) An attractive young woman.
   • 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey 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.

3. (US, Australia, dated) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
4. (US, dated) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
   • 2017, Chunk in "Skate-lebrity", The ZhuZhus

     Ow! These things are defective. Pipsqueak, be a doll, I need a new pair, pronto!

5. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
6. A kind of barrier used in horse racing.
   • 1885, William Day, The Racehorse in Training, page 87:

     On a beautiful spring morning, after the “dolls and chains” had been removed to allow the horses room to pass through, in galloping “across the flat,” […]

7. (rail) A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
8. (slang) A barbiturate or amphetamine pill.

• French: poupée
• German: Puppe
• Italian: bambola
• Portuguese: boneca, boneco
• Russian: ку́кла
• Spanish: muñeca, muñeco

• Italian: bambola
• Spanish: muñequita, muñequitas

A shortening of dollar.

doll (plural dolls)

1. (US, obsolete) A dollar.

doll (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of dal.

• As a south German - surname, from toll.
• Also as a German surname, spelling variant of Thiel.
• As an English surname, from the adjective dull, cognate with the first German derivation.

1. A twp/and/rural village in Sutherland.
2. A female given name.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene iv]:

     O! run, Doll, run; run, good Doll.

3. Surname.