Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed.
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- noun Archaic form of
roly-poly . (kind of pudding)
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Examples
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Chuck was so round and fat and rolly-poly that he just tumbled over in
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Johnny Chuck hurried down the Lone Little Path as fast as his short legs could take his fat, rolly-poly self.
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Now Johnny Chuck was round and fat and rolly-poly, and when one is round and fat and rolly-poly, one's breath is apt to be short.
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Even Johnny Chuck jumped, and because he was so rolly-poly he tumbled over and over and everybody laughed and
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He couldn't even run fast, because he was so fat and round and rolly-poly.
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For we knew; indeed into the rolly-poly necks of Henry and me, in our own politics, the knife had bitten many times.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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You can see them on the street, fat, rolly-poly looking men, bare, oddly-cropped heads, and outwardly clad in what looks like a dressing gown.
Story of Chester Lawrence Nephi Anderson 1894
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After devouring that, I walked my rolly-poly self down to Fisherman's Wharf to have a bit of a look around before my tour to Alcatraz left.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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