kewpie doll

noun

A plump doll with a curl of hair on its head.

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Meanings

nounkewpie doll (plural kewpie dolls)

plural kewpie dolls

  1. A plump doll with a curl of hair on its head.

    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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    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
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