dolly shop

English

Etymology

(pawn shop): After the 19th-century practice of using a black doll to mark out their shops.

Noun

dolly shop (plural dolly shops)

  1. (UK, obsolete) An unlicensed pawnshop where rags, old junk, and like items are bought and sold[1].
    Synonym: dolly
  2. (UK, obsolete) A sweetshop furnished with the gambling device called a dolly[2].

References

  1. ^ “dolly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  2. ^ John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
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