Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
roly-poly .
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Examples
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"Faith, it's makin 'a rowly-powly puddin' of it I will, sor, entirely!"
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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And so the poem goes on "with a rowly-powly, gammon and spinach," and nobody knows what it means.
By the Christmas Fire Samuel McChord Crothers
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Narcissa, upon which I rested with the most perfect confidence; and going up to the rowly-powly table, won a few pieces from my suspected rival, who, with an easy politeness, entered into conversation with me, and, desiring my company to the coffee-house, treated me with tea and chocolate.
The Adventures of Roderick Random Tobias George Smollett 1746
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