DOLLとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɒl/
• (General American) IPA: /dɑl/
  • (Canada) IPA: [dɒːɫ]
• (General Australian) IPA: /dɔl/
• (Indic) IPA: /ɖɔ(w)l/, (spelling pronunciation) /ɖol/
• 韻: -ɒl, (doll–dole merger) -əʊl
• 異形同音異義語: dal, dahl, dol; (doll–dole merger) dole

語源 1

From Doll, pet form of the given name Dorothy.

Etymology 1 sense 7 was coined and popularized by American writer Jacqueline Susann in 1966 through her book Valley of the Dolls (1966) and the film adaptation Valley of the Dolls (1967).

名詞

doll (plural dolls or (Internet slang) dollz)

1. A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.

   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.

   1. (LGBTQ slang) A transgender woman or transfeminine person, especially one that has a highly sexual and feminine personal style.
   2. (LGBTQ slang) A transgender woman or transfeminine person, in general. [c. 2025?–]
3. (US, Australia, somewhat dated; Scotland) A term of endearment

   Synonyms: darling, sweetheart

   • 1952 September 29, “"BOP VOCABULARY" section, inside of "That Crazy Bop Joke Craze"”, in LIFE Magazine‎, New York, U.S., page 69:

     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!”

   • 2008, Stephen King, Willa:

     "They didn't sell cigarettes where you were, doll?" Palmer asked.

4. (US, slightly dated) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.

   Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?

   • 2017, “Skate-lebrity”, in The ZhuZhus, spoken by Chunk:

     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. (rail transport) A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
   • 1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Peculiar Distant Signals on L.N.E.R”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:

     The signals are on a three-doll bracket post; one doll carries two [signal] arms, one above the other.

7. (slang) A barbiturate or amphetamine pill.
   • 1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 227:

     Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.

派生語

派生した語

• → Kashubian: dolka

動詞

doll (third-person singular simple present dolls, present participle dolling, simple past and past participle dolled)

1. Synonym of doll up. (clarification of this definition is needed.)

語源 2

Probably variant of archaic dool (“boundary marker”).

名詞

doll (plural dolls)

1. A temporary 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,” […]

動詞

doll (third-person singular simple present dolls, present participle dolling, simple past and past participle dolled)

1. (UK, transitive) To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).
   • 2023 November 24, “Sean Quinlan: I get the frustration at fences being dolled off because of low sun - but trust jockeys when we say it's not safe”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

語源 3

Clipping of dollar.

名詞

doll (plural dolls)

1. (US, obsolete) Synonym of dollar.

語源 4

名詞

doll (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of dal.

語源 5

Possibly same as dull (whence 中期英語 doll).

動詞

doll (third-person singular simple present dolls, present participle dolling, simple past and past participle dolled)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull. [c. 1440]

参考

• puppet
• teddy, teddy bear

参照

Further reading

• “doll n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “doll”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].
• “doll”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “doll, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

アナグラム

• LOL'd, LOLd, lol'd, lold