† gollyn.

Etymology: Compare goll n.

Obsolete. rare.

(See quot. 1656.)

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1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxi. §213 The hand held hollow, is the Golly; stretched out, the Palm.

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gollyv.

Brit.

/ˈɡɒli/, U.S.

/ˈɡɑli/, Scottish English

/ˈɡɔlɪ/

Etymology: Echoic; compare gollar v.

Scottish.

intransitive. To shout with a thick voice.

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1838 T. Carlyle Let. 12 June in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1985) X. 94 The Annandale voice gollying at them.

Derivatives

ˈgollying n.

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1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xviii. 165 We heard..the wrathful gollying of the great voice.

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gollyint.

Brit.

/ˈɡɒli/, U.S.

/ˈɡɑli/

Etymology: Substituted for god n. and int. in oaths or exclamations; compare goles n.

Originally U.S.

In (by) golly = (by) God.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection]

ahaa1400

ocha1522

heydaya1529

ah1538

ah me!a1547

fore me!a1547

o me!a1547

gossea1556

ay me!1591

o (also oh) rare!1596

law1598

strangec1670

lack-a-day1695

stap my vitals1697

alackaday1705

prodigious1707

my word1722

(by) golly1743

gosh1757

Dear me!1805

Madre de Dios1815

Great Jove!1819

I snum1825

crikey1826

my eye1826

crackey1830

snakes1839

Great Scott1852

holy mackerel!1855

whoops1870

this beats my grandmother1883

wow1892

great balls of fire1893

oo-er1909

zowiec1913

crimes1929

yowa1943

wowee1963

Madre mia!1964

yikes1971

whee1978

chingas1984

1743 Five Argum. against Tythes ‘By Golly,’ says he, ‘he 'as mauled the parsons.’

1775 G. White Jrnls. 21 Dec. (1931) 117 Gouleins (Gothic) salutatio: hence perhaps our word Golly, a sort of jolly kind of oath, or asseveration much in use among our carters, & lowest people.

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. ii. 18 My folks to hum air full ez good ez hisn be, by golly!

1883 Harper's Mag. July 847/2 Golly! I'd do it as quick as wink.

1888 W. B. Churchward ‘Blackbirding’ in S. Pacific 125 Look sharp, or by golly, they will have us for breakfast.

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> as lemmas

A name invented for a black-faced grotesquely dressed (male) doll with a shock of fuzzy hair. Also shortened ˈgolly, Golly. Also attributive and in other combinations.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > doll > [noun] > other dolls

aglet babya1616

Flanders baby1782

wax doll1786

Flanders doll1801

paper doll1843

golliwog1895

Jumeau1897

voodoo doll1906

kewpie1909

Barbie1959

Barbie doll1961

Gonk1964

Ookpik1964

Action Man1966

kachina doll1968

1895 B. Upton (title) The adventures of two Dutch Dolls—and a ‘Golliwogg’.

1904 Woman's Life 7 May 227/1 One of her hobbies is the collecting of those quaint, but unbeautiful, dolls known as Gollywogs.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 28 May 10/2 A clever golliwogg dance received the enthusiastic applause it deserved.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 338 Madcap Ciss with her golliwog curls.

1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 104 Every now and then I was struck afresh with the absurdly ‘gollywog’ appearance of the party.

1934 Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 35 130 Abbreviated forms such as golly ‘gollywog’.

1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest vi. 126 We came to the police-station,..shaded by a large, golliwog-headed palm tree.

1969 I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam viii. 161 A short, slightly-built negro whose appearance reminded me of one of those golliwogs that decorate the labels of Robertson's marmalade jars.