glove doll

1. 1.

   a puppet with a cloth body and hollow head; fits over the hand

   Synonymshand puppetglove puppet

   Broaderpuppet

Questions about glove doll

What does glove doll mean?

glove doll means "a puppet with a cloth body and hollow head; fits over the hand".

What is another word for glove doll?

Close synonyms include hand puppet, glove puppet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glove doll a common word?

glove doll is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.