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roly-poly

[roh-lee-poh-lee, -poh-lee]

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adjective

short and plumply round, as a person or a young animal.
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noun

plural

roly-polies

a roly-poly person or thing.
Chiefly British.��a sheet of biscuit dough spread with jam, fruit, or the like, rolled up and steamed or baked.

roly-poly

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adjective

plump, buxom, or rotund

noun

a strip of suet pastry spread with jam, fruit, or a savoury mixture, rolled up, and baked or steamed as a pudding
a plump, buxom, or rotund person
an informal name for tumbleweed

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Word History and Origins

Origin of roly-poly¹

1595–1605; earlier rowle powle, rowly-powly worthless fellow, game involving rolling balls, rhyming compound based on roll (v.); for second element poll ¹

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Word History and Origins

Origin of roly-poly¹

C17: apparently by reduplication from roly , from _roll

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"We had tapioca, semolina, treacle sponge pudding, as well as jam roly-poly, cake with icing and sprinkles, chocolate cake and pink custard, and more."

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“Dumplings, yumplings, roly-poly dumplings! Eat you, eat you, we will eat you UP!”

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The roly-poly rodents chew up and move around large amounts of plant material, damming streams to create ponds where they can hide from predators.

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A distinctive style, star-studded voice cast and the winning Jack Black voicing Po, the roly-poly, dumpling-appreciating Dragon Warrior, is usually a recipe for success, or at least it has been.

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With their roly-poly bodies, child-like eyes, long whiskers and tiny padded paws, otters are some of the most charismatic animals in nature.

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