doll up en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From doll (noun).
Meanings
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(intransitive, slang, transitive) To dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display)
She's all dolled up with nowhere to go.
Jem looked at her clothes. "You wouldn’t get far dolled up like that."
1970, Noel Streatfeild, Thursday’s Child:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dolled up | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| dolled up | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| dolls up | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| dolling up | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Translations (13)
pt montar (to dress up finely or elaborately) · fi pyntätä (to dress up finely or elaborately) · it essere tirato a lucido (to dress up finely or elaborately) · de sich schick machen (to dress up finely or elaborately) · pl stroić się (to dress up finely or elaborately) · pl wystroić się (to dress up finely or elaborately) · es empapirotar (to dress up finely or elaborately) · es emperejilar (to dress up finely or elaborately) · pl wystrajać się (to dress up finely or elaborately) · pt embonecar (to dress up finely or elaborately) · fi pynttäytyä (to dress up finely or elaborately) · es emperifollar (to dress up finely or elaborately) · nl optutten (to dress up finely or elaborately)