dolly

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: dol=ly

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dolly, n., v., & adj.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a child's name for a doll.
2 a movable platform for a cine-camera.
3 Cricket colloq. an easy catch or hit.
4 a stick for stirring in clothes-washing.
5 = corn dolly (see CORN(1)).
6 colloq. = dolly-bird.
--v. (-ies, -ied)
1 tr. (foll. by up) dress up smartly.
2 intr. (foll. by in, up) move a cine-camera in or up to a subject, or out from it.
--adj. (dollier, dolliest)
1 Brit. colloq. (esp. of a girl) attractive, stylish.
2 Cricket colloq. easily hit or caught.

Idiom

dolly-bird Brit. colloq. an attractive and stylish young woman. dolly mixture any of a mixture of small variously shaped and coloured sweets.

THESAURUS

dolly

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