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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Short and plump; pudgy.
  2. n. A short plump person or thing.
  3. n. Chiefly British A pudding made of jam or fruit rolled up in pastry dough and baked or steamed until soft.
  4. n. See pill bug.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An old game, somewhat resembling bowls, played with pins and a half-sphere of wood on a floor or smooth plot of ground.
  2. n. A sheet of paste spread with jam and rolled up, to form a pudding.
  3. n. A low, vulgar person.
  4. n. A short, stout person.
  5. Of or pertaining to a roly-poly; shaped like a roly-poly; round; pudgy.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. colloquial short and plump
  2. n. A short, plump person.
  3. n. UK A steamed pudding made from suet pastry containing jam or fruit.
  4. n. In gymnastics, a forward or sideways roll, such as that down a hill.
  5. n. A pill bug, potato bug or sowbug.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. Rolly-poly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a rotund individual
  2. adj. short and plump
  3. n. pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed

Etymologies

  1. Alteration and reduplication of roll. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee Haha! Mar 5, 2008

  • chained_bear "Killick and Ahmed came in, the one bearing a roly-poly pudding and the other a sauce-boat of custard...

    "'You may say what you please,' said Jack, 'but I have eaten roly-poly within the Arctic Circle, damned nearly within the Antarctic, and now under the equator, and I am of opinion that it has not its equal.'

    "'Except, perhaps, for spotted dog.'

    "'Ah, you have a point there, Stephen.'"
    --Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 268–269 Mar 5, 2008

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