Meanings
verbdoll up (third-person singular simple present dolls up, present participle dolling up, simple past and past participle dolled up)
present singular third person dolls up · participle present dolling up · participle past dolled up · past dolled up
- intransitiveslangtransitiveTo dress up finely or elaborately; to deck up. (often of ostentatious display)First known use 1906
She's all dolled up with nowhere to go.
1 more example
Jem looked at her clothes. "You wouldn’t get far dolled up like that."
1970, Noel Streatfeild, Thursday’s Child
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From doll (noun).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch optutten
- optuttento dress up finely or elaborately
Finnish pyntätä, pynttäytyä
- pyntätäto dress up finely or elaborately
- pynttäytyäto dress up finely or elaborately
German sich schick machen
- sich schick machento dress up finely or elaborately
Italian essere tirato a lucido
- essere tirato a lucidoto dress up finely or elaborately
Polish stroić się, wystrajać się
- stroić sięto dress up finely or elaborately
- wystrajać sięto dress up finely or elaborately
- wystroić sięto dress up finely or elaborately
Portuguese embonecar, montar
- embonecarto dress up finely or elaborately
- montarto dress up finely or elaborately
Spanish emperifollar, empapirotar
- emperifollarto dress up finely or elaborately
- empapirotarto dress up finely or elaborately
- emperejilarto dress up finely or elaborately
Cite this entry
APA
doll up. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doll%20up
MLA
“doll up.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doll%20up. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “doll up,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doll%20up.
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