kewpie doll

English
A kewpie doll

Noun

kewpie doll (plural kewpie dolls)

  1. A plump doll with a curl of hair on its head.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 81,
      He was a low-browed youth of about twenty, very big for his age, swarthy as a Greek, and shaped rather like a kewpie doll, having a rotund pendulous paunch and a distinctly egg-shaped head.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 26:
      The young explorer stood in the crowd, Kewpie doll under his arm […].
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