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kewpie doll en · NOUN
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A plump doll with a curl of hair on its head.
He was a low-browed youth of about twenty, very big for his age, swarthy as a Greek, and shaped rather like a kewpie doll, having a rotund pendulous paunch and a distinctly egg-shaped head.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 81:The young explorer stood in the crowd, Kewpie doll under his arm […].
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 26:
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