doll:

1. Traditionally, a young and attractive person of either sex , but usually applied to women, possibly derived from the baby-dolls that children love to dress up or from its use as a nicknames for Dorothy.

Quotes:

(1) Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) to Det. Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) in Laura (1944):
-- Waldo: ' Did you ever know a woman who wasn't a doll or a dame? '
-- Mark: ' Yes, one, but she kept walking me past furniture windows to look at the parlor suites .'

(2) Gamblers Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) and Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) discussing women in Guys and Dolls (1955): ' I am not putting the knock on dolls. It's just that they're something to have around only when they come in handy... like cough drops .

(3) Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) in Guys and Dolls (1955): ' A doll is a doll, all dolls, any doll .'

(4) Allan Felix (Woody Allen) watching a dancer in a bar in Play It Again, Sam (1972): ' She's a doll. I'd sell my mother to the Arabs for her .'

2. A woman . May be a term of admiration , of endearment, or of contempt.

3. A sweetheart or darling .

4. A helpful or obliging person.

See Also: anaclisis, anaclitism, baby doll, Barbie, cutie pie, dame de voyage, diaphanophilia, doll, doll face, dolled up, dolly spit, doul, dressed to kill, dressed to the nines, dressed to the teeth, fornicatory doll, gold-digging, horny, nightie, nighty, pediophobia, puppetophilia, temptation, vision of loveliness, walking dream, wandering hand

Quotes Containing doll:
Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) in Guys and Dolls (1955): ''A doll is a doll , all dolls, any doll .''
Sister Annie Alden (Helen Jerome Eddy) and Rose Carlton/The Frisco Doll (Mae West) in Klondike Annie (1936): - Sister Annie: 'If you tried , you could resist every temptation .' - The Frisco Doll: 'What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.'
Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996): ''I look like an over-the-hill Barbie Doll.''
Frisco Doll (Mae West) in Klondike Annie (1936): ''I''m an Occidental woman in an Oriental mood for-love .''
Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996): ''I look like an over-the-hill Barbie Doll.''
Frisco Doll/Rose Carlton (Mae West) in Klondike Annie (1936): ''Give a man a free hand and he''ll try to put it all over you.''
''Twenty years on the China seas and she never lost a spangle.'' Jamesy McArdle (Wallace Beery) watching China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) walking down the steps in a spangled dress in China Seas (1935).
''Twenty years on the China seas and she never lost a spangle.'' Jamesy McArdle (Wallace Beery) watching China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) walking down the steps in a spangled dress in China Seas (1935).
China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) to Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) in China Seas (1935): ''I would have stood and fought back to back with you, but you taught me something I didn''t even know myself. When a woman can love a man right down to her fingertips, she can hate him the same way .''
''I would have stood and fought back to back with you, but you taught me something I didn''t even know myself. When a woman can love a man right down to her fingertips, she can hate him the same way .'' China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) to Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) in China Seas (1935)
''I would have stood and fought back to back with you, but you taught me something I didn''t even know myself. When a woman can love a man right down to her fingertips, she can hate him the same way .'' China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) to Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) in China Seas (1935)
''I would have stood and fought back to back with you, but you taught me something I didn''t even know myself. When a woman can love a man right down to her fingertips, she can hate him the same way .'' China Doll Portland (Jean Harlow) to Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) in China Seas (1935)
Allan Felix (Woody Allen) watching a dancer in a bar in Play It Again, Sam (1972): ''She''s a doll . I''d sell my mother to the Arabs for her.''
Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) to Det. Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) in Laura (1944): - Waldo: ''Did you ever know a woman who wasn''t a doll or a dame?'' - Mark: ''Yes, one, but she kept walking me past furniture windows to look at the parlor suites.''
Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb) to Det. Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) in Laura (1944): - Waldo: ''Did you ever know a woman who wasn''t a doll or a dame?'' - Mark: ''Yes, one, but she kept walking me past furniture windows to look at the parlor suites.''
Michael/Dorothy (Dustin Hoffman) to Ron (Dabney Coleman) in Tootsie (1982): - Ron: ''Tootsie, take ten .'' - Dorothy: ''Ron, my name is Dorothy. It''s not Tootsie or Toots or Sweety or Honey or Doll.'' - Don: ''Oh! Christ!'' - Dorothy: ''No, just Dorothy. Now Allen is always Allen, Tom is always Tom, and John is always John. I have a name too. It''s Dorothy. Capital D , o, r, o, t, h, y. Dorothy.''

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