doll up

verbbeautify oneself; dress up

Synonyms for doll up

verb beautify oneself; dress up

Antonyms for doll up

dress down

Word Origin & History

1550s, endearing name for a female pet or a mistress; originally a familiar form of fem. proper name Dorothy (q.v.). The -l- for -r- substitution in nicknames is common in English: cf. Hal for Harold, Moll for Mary, Sally for Sarah, etc. Attested from 1640s as colloquial for "slattern;" sense of "child's toy baby" is c.1700. Transferred back to living beings 1778 in sense of "pretty, silly woman."

Example Sentences for doll up

We even had to send out word it was time to doll up for dinner.

Vee makes me doll up in an open face vest and dinner coat, too.

They shut the doll up in a small room, so that she could not be seen.

So Struthers and I are about to doll up these dilapidated quarters of ours.

And to go home at night to doll up in his glad rags and call on Mazie.

The cowboys insisted on wearing their cowboy suits, but each had brought along extra clothes so they could doll up at the wedding.

She caught the doll up by its leg, and with an exclamation of disgust threw it into the fire.

She held the doll up by its frock, so that its legs and one remaining arm dangled miserably in the air.

Her fury had spent itself in one blow and she would have given anything to set the doll up in its place again unharmed.

He could doll up in his uniform any minute; he could even claim his place at the Captain's table, and meet the Girl.

doll up

Synonyms for doll up

Antonyms for doll up

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adorns

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attired

attiring

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Synonyms for doll up

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