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  • noun Plural form of golly.

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Examples

  • But behind the "gollies," "youbetchas" and flat-out ignorance displayed by the likes of Palin, there's a more sinister aspect of the Tea Party movement, one that was on display earlier this week when dozens of "patriots" gathered for an April 19 anti-Obama rally on the Potomac River -- with their guns.

    Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Nicole Colson 2010

  • But behind the "gollies," "youbetchas" and flat-out ignorance displayed by the likes of Palin, there's a more sinister aspect of the Tea Party movement, one that was on display earlier this week when dozens of "patriots" gathered for an April 19 anti-Obama rally on the Potomac River -- with their guns.

    Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org Nicole Colson 2010

  • They are made by Trendle International, a family business based in Somerset, who describe their line of 'gollies' as one of their most popular

    Tongue Tied 3 2009

  • They are made by Trendle International, a family business based in Somerset, who describe their line of 'gollies' as one of their most popular 'speciality' products.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • They are made by Trendle International, a family business based in Somerset, who describe their line of 'gollies' as one of their most popular 'speciality' products.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • Mr and Mrs O'Neill's business, Ashby Bears. com, based in Rushton's Yard, off Market Street, in Ashby, sells teddy bears and gollies to collectors across the world.

    Ashby de la Zouch: Golliwog capital of Britain 2009

  • In the trousers of this starry veck there was only a malenky bit of cutter (money, that is) - not more than three gollies - so we gave all his messy little coin the scatter treatment, it being hen-korm to the amount of pretty polly we had on us already.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Hillary sure gets your gollies up by the look of things.

    Obama Compares Hillary To Bush? 2009

  • The "goshes" and "gollies" of the outgoing Alaska governor are a thin veneer for deep-seated rage, a spiderweb of resentment that captures every perceived insult and slight.

    RJ Eskow: Is Sarah Palin the First Post-Modern Politician? 2009

  • O my gosh and gollies - we have a prophet on the thread!

    Biden: Palin Must Condemn Ugly Slurs From Supporters 2009

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