sawdust doll
- noun
- Archaic
:
muñeca de aserrín
- She cherished the handmade sawdust doll passed down from her grandmother.
Examples
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The old trunk in the attic contained a delicate sawdust doll from her childhood.
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After years of play, the sawdust doll had a few seams that needed patching.
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She has a sawdust doll from her childhood.
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Many children used to play with sawdust dolls.
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She cherished the handmade sawdust doll passed down from her grandmother.
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The old trunk in the attic contained a delicate sawdust doll from her childhood.
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After years of play, the sawdust doll had a few seams that needed patching.
Synonyms
738
1.0
A small person-shaped toy that children play with
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2.0
A cloth doll filled with stuffing and with a painted or stitched face
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1.8
A small toy made from paper, cut or folded to look like a person
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward noun-noun compound where 'sawdust' specifies the material associated with the 'doll', so the meaning 'a doll stuffed or made with sawdust' is directly derivable from the constituents. Material+object compounds are cross-linguistically common and follow regular composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Sawdust doll comes from old handmade toys: a cloth doll filled with loose sawdust left over from woodworking. Because the toy was literally 'stuffed' with sawdust, the name now means a small, homemade doll filled with sawdust.