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roly poly

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ro⋅ly-po⋅ly

  [roh-lee-poh-lee, -poh-lee] adjective, noun, plural -lies.
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–adjective
1. short and plumply round, as a person or a young animal.
–noun
2. a roly-poly person or thing.
3. Chiefly British. a sheet of biscuit dough spread with jam, fruit, or the like, rolled up and steamed or baked.
Origin:
1595–1605; earlier rowle powle, rowly-powly worthless fellow, game involving rolling balls, rhyming compound based on roll (v.); for second element cf. poll 1

Synonyms:
1. fat, rotund, pudgy.

Antonyms:
1. scrawny.
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Word Origin & History

roly-poly 
"short and stout," 1820, probably a varied reduplication of roll. As a noun, it was used as the name of various ball games from 1713, and it was used as early as 1613 in the sense of "rascal."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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