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Synonyms for dolly

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

chat up toy grope cosset romance butterfly mash coquette

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Doddle — to waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle

doddle, trifle, toy, play, hang about informal, dilly-dally, waste time, horse around, while away, lag, hang around, putter, linger, diddle, mess around, fool around, piddle, chat up, sport, delay, loiter, wanton

2. Flirt — to caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet

flirt, fondle, pet, feel up, caress, grope, cosset, dandle

Other

coquette, butterfly, mash, romance, philander, shilly-shally informal

Noun

doll, hand truck, touch-up, jerk-off, posser, kill-time dated

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle.

  2. v. 2

    To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet

  3. n. 1

    A doll.

Related words

Phrases
trolley dolly dolly bird dolly blue corn dolly dolly shop brolly dolly dolly knot dolly zoom
Other spellings
dally dollie

Forms

Plural
dollies → dolls, touch-ups, jerk-offs, possers…
Past participle
dollied
e.g. dollied → doddled, trifled, toyed, played…

Example sentences

  • toy You need to store small toy parts in a safe place.
  • grope Santiago tried to grope Melissa's chest.
  • romance I have studied all the national Romance languages.
  • butterfly Ziri smiled as the butterfly landed on his finger.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
dollysteady
toyrising
groperising
cossetrising
romancerising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
pet1, toy1, lag1
4 letters
play1, doll1, mash1
5 letters
sport1, delay2, flirt1, grope1
6 letters
linger2, trifle2, putter2, wanton2, caress2, fondle2, diddle2, loiter2, doddle, piddle2, cosset2, dandle, posser
7 letters
romance2
8 letters
coquette
9 letters
butterfly3, philander3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delay2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
lanterner
Català
vagarejar