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living doll, n.
Brit. |ˌlɪvɪŋ ˈdɒl|, U.S. |ˈlɪvɪŋ ˈdɑl|
[‹ living adj. + doll n.1]
1. A person (esp. a woman) resembling a doll in some way; spec. (a) a helpless, docile, or compliant person, or one who is treated as a plaything; (b) a person of doll-like appearance, or with doll-like features; a particularly attractive person.
1812E. Hitchener Let. 1 Jan. in W. E. Peak Shelley (1927) 337 My patience was tried more than common, by one of those poor creatures of our sex, who..cannot exist one hour without..assistance... I am at times pestered with these living dolls. 1840G. Darley Thomas à Becket iii. i. 53, I love..the caw of rooks, much better..than the lisp of a Circean dame Or babble of a living doll. 1872Ladies' Repository Sept. 231 The coiffures are, of course, constructed in the latest style; the Parisian hair-dresser has waited on Miss So-and-so; he has powdered the little creature till she looks like an old-time French marchioness; and the pride of the living doll is about equal to one of these. 1939J. W. De Forest Miss Ravenel's Conversion xxxiii. 413 She was born for maternity... She had a living doll, her own, her soul's doll, to care for and worship. 1959L. Bart Living Doll (song, perf. ‘Cliff Richard’) 2 Got myself a crying, talking, sleeping, walking, Living Doll. Got to do my best to please her just 'cos she's a Living Doll. 1985San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 20 Sept. c3 At first, as she writes, ‘I was Elvis' doll, his own living doll, to fashion as he pleased.’ She was subservient, in awe of her master and mentor. 1990K. Lawrence Springs of Living Water v. 112 Min and her girlfriends consistently voted him the cutest boy in school—‘A living doll’ she wrote carefully next to his name in her seven-year diary.
2. U.S. colloq. A kind or helpful person; a person who has treated someone else particularly well or has behaved in an especially friendly, thoughtful, or obliging way.
1979Washington Post 18 July a3/4 The ambassador [from] Guinea must weigh 400 pounds, but he's a living doll. 1983People (Nexis) 12 Dec. 46 At one point she inadvertently flew into clouds, which often sends untrained fliers into a spin, but Edith came out level and on course. ‘He told me what to do and I tried to do it,’ says Merrill. ‘Jack is a living doll.’ 1988Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 28 Mar. 9 c, I think you are a living doll for standing by your man as you have. 2001Intelligencer Jrnl. (Lancaster, Pa.) 23 Nov. b1 Everyone is so nice and Debbie..is a living doll. |