Kewpie Doll

/ (ˈkjuːpɪ) /

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noun US and Canadian

trademark a doll having rosy cheeks and a curl of hair on its head

(often not capitals) any brightly coloured doll, commonly given as a prize at carnivals

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

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there

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Word Origin for Kewpie Doll

C20 kewpie, perhaps from Cupid

Words nearby Kewpie Doll

Kewanee, Keweenaw Peninsula, Kew garden fever, kewl, Kewpie, Kewpie Doll, kex, key, keyboard, keyboardist, keyboard warrior

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Example sentences from the Web for Kewpie Doll

Then Ziegler tosses the buff LaBeouf around like a rag doll.
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Families stuff a life-size male doll with memories of the outgoing year and dress him in their clothing.
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To test out a doll he designed to have realistic human proportions, Nickolay Lamm went to a group of second-graders in Pittsburgh.
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The auction house reached out to the Levine estate to procur the doll.
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Wilson later landed in hot water with some by pushing for the creation of the first Barbie for President doll.
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The heavy man unconsciously shook him in his powerful grasp, as a child might shake a doll.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
If you can get a small skin, fit it to a doll the way you think the Cave-men fitted skins to their bodies.
The Later Cave-Men|Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
And there was Louis the Goon—his little clay pigeon—in one of the booths with a doll.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Her whole soul hangs upon the lips of a beautiful baby doll that seems to be calling her his mummy.
Marguerite|Anatole France
But once when Hepzebiah fell in the pond after her doll, Rover swam in and caught her dress in his mouth and brought her to shore.
Seven O'Clock Stories|Robert Gordon Anderson

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