Definition of Dollish

1. pretty [adj] - See also: pretty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dollish

dolldoms
dolled
dolled up
dollface
dollfaces
dollhood
dollhoods
dollhouse
dollhouselike
dollhouses
dollied
dollier
dolliers
dollies
dolling
dollish (current term)
dollishly
dollishness
dollishnesses
dollkind
dollmaker
dollmakers
dollmaking
dollman
dollmans
dollop
dolloped
dolloping
dollops
dollopy

Literary usage of Dollish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Pink for pink, blue for blue, gold for gold, dollish smirk for dollish smirk, the mirror mocked her seething inner fretfulness. ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1902)
"If those to whom we look for the study of life are to divert themselves to formulating "dollish ideas" concerning the nature of consciousness—the most ..."

3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Women grow dollish; sink more or less consciously man's level; gratify his desires and even his selfish caprice; but exact in return luxury and display, ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"... sympathetic, and lovable —possibly sometimes just a little bit "dollish." For answer l can only repeat what l have said already—that Dickens was a man, ..."

5. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"When you were tired of that dollish little face who had not even the grace to conceal her tears, you went to the gutter, wallowing shamelessly in the slime ..."

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