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dolly bird

Noun

Meaning

dolly bird (plural dolly birds)

(Britain) An attractive young woman, especially one whose intellect is rather less in evidence than her good looks.

dolly-bird (plural dolly-birds)

Alternative spelling of dolly bird

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

dolly-bird

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Examples

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

Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that. Jo Brand

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