c. 1600, Dolly, a fem. nickname (see doll); 1790 as "child's doll;" applied from 1792 to any contrivance fancied to resemble a dolly in some sense, especially "a small platform on rollers" (1901). Doesn't look like one to me, either, but that's what they say.
例文
1. Dolly 's store of drinking glasses had run out.
ドリーが保管していたグラスは使い切ってしまった。
2.Our biggest source of customers are the dolly -birds working-class girls.
私たちの最大の顧客源は若くて美しいモダンな女性労働者です。
3. Dolly was the first to be safely born by this technology.
ドリー羊がこの技術によって安全に誕生したのは初めてだ。
4. Dolly 's legacy includes the possibility of Makipatient-specific embrenic stem cell lines.