kewpie doll

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 […].