Adjective: dolly
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more dolly |
| Superlative | most dolly |
Sample Sentences
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Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil. [1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:]
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She minces past the brandy latch / to vada dolly dish for trade, silly / with oomph and taste to park. [2015 October 12, Adam Lowe, “Poem of the week: Vada That”, in The Guardian:]
Adjectives inflected like dolly
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Disputed. Most scholars derive the term from doll + -y, as Etymology 1, above. Linguist Ian Hancock, however, suggests derivation from Italian dolce (“sweet”). See: Italian Adjectives '
dolce'.