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I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.
Barbara Windsor

Meaning of "dolly bird" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DOLLY BIRD

dolly bird  [ˈdɒlɪ bɜːd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DOLLY BIRD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dolly bird is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DOLLY BIRD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dolly bird in the English dictionary

The definition of dolly bird in the dictionary is an attractive and fashionable girl, esp one who is considered to be unintelligent.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DOLLY BIRD


bellbird
ˈbɛlˌbɜːd
bird
bɜːd
blackbird
ˈblækˌbɜːd
bluebird
ˈbluːˌbɜːd
Byrd
bɜːd
cowbird
ˈkaʊˌbɜːd
early-bird
ˈɜːlɪbɜːd
firebird
ˈfaɪəˌbɜːd
hummingbird
ˈhʌmɪŋˌbɜːd
ladybird
ˈleɪdɪˌbɜːd
lovebird
ˈlʌvˌbɜːd
lyrebird
ˈlaɪəˌbɜːd
mockingbird
ˈmɒkɪŋˌbɜːd
night-bird
ˈnaɪtˌbɜːd
snowbird
ˈsnəʊˌbɜːd
songbird
ˈsɒŋˌbɜːd
sunbird
ˈsʌnˌbɜːd
thunderbird
ˈθʌndəˌbɜːd
yardbird
ˈjɑːdˌbɜːd
yellowbird
ˈjɛləʊˌbɜːd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DOLLY BIRD

dollarless
dollarocracy
dolldom
dolled up
Dollfuss
dollhood
dollhouse
dollied
dollier
dollies
dolliness
dollish
dollishly
dollishness
dollop
dolly
dolly mixture
dolly tub
Dolly Varden
dolly-posh

WORDS THAT END LIKE DOLLY BIRD

a little bird
brain-fever bird
cage bird
early bird
elephant bird
frigate bird
game bird
get the bird
give someone the bird
gooney bird
jaybird
like a bird
old bird
rainbow bird
rare bird
sea bird
secretary bird
shore bird
umbrella bird
wading bird
water bird

Synonyms and antonyms of dolly bird in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dolly bird» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DOLLY BIRD

Find out the translation of dolly bird to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dolly bird from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dolly bird» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

小车鸟
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Dolly pájaro
570 millions of speakers

English

dolly bird
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नादान चिड़िया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

دوللي الطيور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

куколка птица
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dolly pássaro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডলি পাখি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dolly oiseau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Burung dolly
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Dolly Vogel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ドリーの鳥
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

돌리 조류
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Manuk dolly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dolly chim
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டோலி பறவை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डॉली पक्षी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dolly kuş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dolly uccello
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dolly ptaka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лялечка птиця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dolly pasăre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κουκλίτσα πουλί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Dolly voël
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dolly fågel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dolly fugl
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dolly bird

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DOLLY BIRD»

The term «dolly bird» is normally little used and occupies the 130.403 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DOLLY BIRD» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dolly bird

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QUOTES WITH «DOLLY BIRD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dolly bird.
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Barbara Windsor
I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOLLY BIRD»

Discover the use of dolly bird in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dolly bird and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dictionary of Homonyms
A 'dolly bird', for instance, is a slang expression used to denote an attractive and sexually alluring young lady. As a child I remember my mother putting the clothes in a large metal bowl of soapy water and pounding the resulting mixture with a ...
David Rothwell, 2007
2
Anna Sui
The “Dolly Girl” look has its roots in what is referred to as the “dolly bird” style of 1960s London, a time that Sui idolizes. In British slang, a “dolly bird” was a young woman, usually associated with London of this era, who was obsessed with the ...
Susan Muaddi Darraj, 2009
3
Sidewalk in the Sky
In one old abandoned house in the neighborhood a Dolly Bird used to reside. It had been a great house in its time, and my friends and I sometimes explored the interior of it as well as the outside terrain. There was a staircase that circled up ...
Vada Jain, 2012
4
Miniature Pinscher: UK Registered Miniature Pinschers 1974-1983
... Horemheb Dam - Kehilan Dolly Bird D.O.B. 1st June 1979 Kehilan Corn Dolly – Bitch Sire - Hayclose Horemheb Dam - Kehilan Dolly Bird D.O.B. 1st June 1979 Kehilan Cracklin Rosie – Bitch Sire - Hayclose Horemheb Dam - Kehilan Dolly ...
Sue Edmondson, 2008
5
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
John Ayto, John Simpson. doll dollar dolly-bird DOM dona doncher dong doofus doohickey doojigger dooky doolally Doolan. lump of bird's doings on the windowsill (1984). Cf. to do it at do verb 9. doll noun A young woman, esp. an attractive ...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
6
Happy Families
THE DOLLY BIRD (avis excitans) Comes in wildly varied forms. May be of drab colouration in jeans and overprinted T-shirt, or of elaborate and brightly-hued foliage. All variants are narrow-stemmed, sturdy, vigorous-climbing, silkily frondaged ...
‎2001
7
Knock, Knock! Who's There?
“You, dolly-bird. We want to talk to you about Johnny.” But it was the other one Freda feared: the little, white-faced horror with his evil, sadistic eyes who followed behind the ape man. “He's gone,” she said. They were now in the living-room and  ...
James Hadley Chase, 2000
8
Violent Femmes: Women as Spies in Popular Culture
The 'dolly bird'was borneout ofa mythic recreation of London as a 'happening'city, thefocal point of everything youthful, modernandhip,which waslargelythe creationoffeatures editors on either side of theAtlantic (Green1999:70–2). Whilethey ...
Rosie White, 2007
9
Humor auf Englisch:
The dating agency (actually an old-fashioned Scottish marriage bureau) could only offer him a “dolly-bird“ with false teeth, fake eyelashes, inflated bras, artificial hips and 'wrinkleless', smooth skin, the product of beauty farms, beauty salons ...
Eckehard Korthals, 2011
10
The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and ...
Polari UK,1964 dolly bagnounthe clothbag carried byfemale prisoners UK, 1996 dolly bird nounan attractive young womanUK, 1964 dolly boynounayouthful, attractive homosexual male prostitute. An evolution from DILLY BOYUK, 1979 Dolly ...
Terry Victor, Tom Dalzell, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DOLLY BIRD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dolly bird is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Susan Boyle's stalker hell as phone caller told her 'I know where you …
I'm no dolly bird but I make no apologies for that because the music industry is for everyone.” Susan's incredible journey has attracted the ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Yorkshirewoman with work ethic is finally made Mayor
That year she also appeared as a “dolly bird” on It's a Knockout when it came to Sheffield. Miss Hillier then worked as junior artist at an ... «Henley Standard, Jun 15»
3
Child's play: TOWIE babe makes multi-million pound fortune by 25
Not bad for a dolly bird from Brentwood... And now the 25-year-old former reality star is launching a business book to show others that if she ... «Daily Star, Jun 15»
4
Clichéd and silly, The Interceptor is a hit for BBC One
Wednesday's big winner came in the form of Coronation Street (ITV, 7:30pm) as mature dolly bird Liz McDonald felt an urge to grab some ... «MediaTel Newsline, Jun 15»
5
Model Edie Campbell Does Not Miss Her Long Hair—and Other …
... she's morphed from a Françoise Hardy–esque dolly bird with pillowy bangs for Hedi Slimane's spring 2013 Saint Laurent campaign into the ... «Vogue.com, Jun 15»
6
Watchdog says Jimmy Savile could have been caught in 2008
He then her something like 'a little dolly bird' before putting one of her hands on his groin. He made her perform a sexual act on him until she ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
7
Rosemary Smith is still motoring through life at full speed
BACK in the mid-1960s, she was the 'blonde dolly bird' who grabbed the headlines with her winning spirit and dogged determination as a rally ... «Irish Examiner, Mar 15»
8
INTERVIEW: Jacob Addley who stars in hilarious classroom classic …
The students' play includes plenty of instantly recognisable school characters: a large, loud and eccentric head mistress, a dolly bird PE ... «North Devon Journal, Mar 15»
9
Dorothy's final farewell
And I think I've been able to do that." Even when she was a 'blonde dolly bird. "I'd wear the red nose and make up and go into the 'Haw, Maw', ... «Glasgow Evening Times, Mar 15»
10
Proxy music: why the cover version's days could be numbered
... to deflect buyers' attention with free posters and a sleeve image of, to use the crude vernacular of the time, a “dolly bird” in a state of undress. «The Guardian, Feb 15»

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