doll up
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
doll up (third-person singular simple present dolls up, present participle dolling up, simple past and past participle dolled up)
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display) [from 1906]
- She's all dolled up with nowhere to go.
- 1970, Noel Streatfeild, Thursday’s Child:
- Jem looked at her clothes. "You wouldn’t get far dolled up like that."
Translations
to dress up finely or elaborately
References
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “doll (v.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “doll, v.2”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
- “doll up v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present