Doll

See also: doll

English

Etymology

• As a south German surname, from toll (“mad, foolish”).
• Also as a German surname, spelling variant of Thiel.
• As an English surname, from the adjective dull, cognate with the first German derivation. Also compare Dill.

Proper noun

Doll

1. A township and rural village in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

     O! run, Doll, run; run, good Doll.

3. A surname.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Doll”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 475.

Anagrams

• LOL'd, LOLd, lol'd, lold