different between doll vs bobblehead

English

Etymology

From Doll, a popular pet form of Dorothy. The dollar sense is a shortening of the word.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?l/, /d?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

doll (plural dolls)

1. A toy in the form of a human.

   Hyponym: action figure

2. (slang, sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman
3. (US, Australia) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
4. (US, obsolete) A dollar.
5. (US, dated, now possibly offensive) 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!

6. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
7. 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,” […]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• golliwog
• puppet
• teddy, teddy bear
• doll on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• LOL'd, LOLd, lol'd, lold

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?lium.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?do?/

Noun

doll m (plural dolls)

1. stream, jet
2. pitcher, vase

Derived terms

• endoll

German

Etymology

Occasionally found in older texts, but chiefly introduced to standard German during the 20th century from Central German and German Low German dialects, from northern Middle High German dol and Middle Low German dol. Doublet of toll (“great; crazy”), which compare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?l/

Adjective

doll (comparative doller, superlative am dollsten)

1. (informal) firm, hard, forceful, strong (of actions, also of emotions)

2. (colloquial, chiefly in negation or sarcastically) good, great, satisfactory

3. (colloquial, with Ding) extraordinary, remarkable

Usage notes

• The word is readily attestable in written representations of spoken and informal German. The sense “firm, hard” is now also found occasionally in more standard prose, chiefly as an adverb (see below).

Declension

Adverb

doll

1. (informal) firmly, hard, forcefully, vehemently, strong (of actions, also of emotions)

Further reading

• “doll” in Duden online

Plautdietsch

Adjective

doll

1. mad, angry, furious
2. rabid

English

Etymology

bobble +? head

Noun

bobblehead (plural bobbleheads)

1. A collectible doll with a bobbing head.
2. (figuratively) A thoughtless person.

Derived terms

• bobble-head doll syndrome

Translations

Anagrams

• head bobble