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Doll vs Dollmaking - What's the difference?

doll | dollmaking |

As a proper noun doll

is a diminutive of the female given name dorothy.

As a noun dollmaking is

the manufacture of dolls.

doll

English

(wikipedia doll)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A toy in the form of a human.
  • (informal) Used to refer to or address a woman.
  • (Australia) A term of endearment (ie. darling).

    • Hyponyms

    * action figure

    Derived terms

    * dollhouse, doll's house * doll's pram * doll up * dolly * Russian doll * sex doll

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to be more beautiful of attractive. See also doll up.

    • See also

    * golliwog * puppet * teddy, teddy bear * ("doll" on Wikipedia) ----

    dollmaking

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The manufacture of dolls.
  • * 1894 , John Wesley Hanson, The World's Congress of Religions
    • a girl of twelve or fourteen whose ideas are so simple and artless and whose mind still lingers at skipping and dollmaking ?