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dollish

  • a word derived from doll.
    doll
    noun
    a small figure representing a baby or other human being, especially for use as a child's toy.

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Even his glasses looked dollish: they were thicker than window louvers, tinted a strange bluish shade, and framed in white plastic.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The figure wore a lofty bridal coiffure picked out with sprigs of orange blossom, and smiled with a dollish smile.

From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

An expression of contempt curled Rose's lip, as she glanced at Ella, and thought of being outshone by her dollish figure and face.

From The English Orphans by Mary Jane Holmes

At four years old the little thing undoubtedly had a dollish resemblance to her mother.

From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

I furnished him with a pair of dollish light eyes, with long eyelashes carefully drawn in, and as a masterstroke threw in the most taper-shaped waist.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 by Harry Furniss