liˈpoʊ 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.
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Roly-poly
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | plump, buxom, or rotund |
| —n , -lies | |
| 2. | (Brit) a strip of suet pastry spread with jam, fruit, or a savoury mixture, rolled up, and baked or steamed as a pudding |
| 3. | a plump, buxom, or rotund person |
| 4. | (Austral) an informal name for tumbleweed |
| [C17: apparently by reduplication from roly, from | |
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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."
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