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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- A doll fashioned in grotesque caricature of a Black male.
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Wiktionary (5 definitions)
- A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel
- (By extension) A black person.
- a hairy caterpillar
- a receiver of stolen goods
- (Rhyming slang as "the" golliwogs): greyhound racing
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WordNet (1 definition)
- A grotesque black doll.
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He had a golliwog, and a golliwog is an English doll, and he probably left it on my bed.
Surely, the two important questions are whether referring to someone as a "golliwog" is offensive, which to my mind it clearly is, and whether the remark was made in private or not.
Margaret Thatcher's distress at BBC treatment of daughter Carol in 'golliwog' row
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After Golliwog, a character in books by Florence Upton (died 1922), American illustrator.
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