rag doll

rag doll
noun
a cloth doll that is stuffed and (usually) painted
• Hypernyms: ↑doll, ↑dolly

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noun
1. : a stuffed and usually painted cloth doll
2. : a device for testing the germination of seed consisting of a strip of cloth that has numbered squares on which the seeds are placed and that is rolled into a bundle and kept moist during the test; also : a modification of this device used for inoculation of seed by disease organisms (as for tests of disease resistance)

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a stuffed doll, esp. of cloth.
[1850-55]

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rag doll noun
1. A doll made of rags
2. A slattern
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Main Entry: ↑rag

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rag doll UK US noun [countable] [singular rag doll plural rag dolls]
a child’s doll made of cloth
Thesaurus: dolls, puppets and soft toyshyponym to perform an action in a card gamehyponym

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rag doll,
a limp doll made of rags or scraps of cloth: »

Rag dolls are the most popular of all homemade dolls (Nina R. Jordan).

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n. a soft doll made from pieces of cloth

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noun, pl ⋯ dolls [count]
: a soft doll made of cloth

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ˌrag ˈdoll [rag doll rag dolls] noun
a soft ↑doll made from pieces of cloth

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Shaking her like a rag doll, Janine began to shout.


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