roly-polyn.adv.adj.

Brit.

/ˌrəʊlɪˈpəʊli/, U.S.

/ˌroʊliˈpoʊli/

Inflections: Plural roly-polies, roly-polys.

Forms: 1600s rowle-powle, 1600s 1800s roley-poley, 1600s (1900s– Scottish) rowlie-powlie, 1600s– roly-poly, 1600s– rowley-powley (now chiefly regional), 1600s– rowly-powly (now chiefly regional), 1700s rouly-pouly, 1700s rowly-powl (Scottish), 1700s (1800s Scottish) rowley-powly, 1700s–1800s rolly-poley, 1700s–1800s rolly-pooly, 1700s– rolly-polly, 1800s roley-boley, 1800s rolley-polley, 1800s rollie-poly (Scottish), 1800s rolli-powley (English regional), 1800s roly-poley, 1800s roulie-poulie (Scottish), 1900s– rollie-polie (Scottish), 2000s– rollie-pollie.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: roll v.²

Etymology: Apparently a reduplication of roll v.², with variation of the initial consonant and suffixation (compare -y suffix¹). Compare later rolly adj.The semantic motivation of sense A. 1 is unclear; with the second element in this sense perhaps compare poll n.¹ With sense A. 6 compare later roly n.

A. n.

†1. A worthless person; a rascal. Obsolete.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun]

harlot?c1225

truantc1290

shreward1297

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

custronc1400

knapea1450

sloven?a1475

limmerc1485

knavatec1506

smaik?1507

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

varletc1540

losthope?c1550

makeshift1554

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

crack-halter1573

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

scaba1592

bezonian1592

slave1592

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

roly-poly1602

canter1608

cantler1611

gue1612

fraudsman1613

Cathayana1616

crack-hempa1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

trickster1711

shake-bag1794

sinner1809

cad1838

badmash1843

scattermouch1892

jazzbo1914

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person

brethelingc1275

filec1300

dogc1330

ribald1340

waynouna1350

waster1352

lorel1362

losel1362

land-leaper1377

triflera1382

brothelc1390

javelc1400

leftc1400

lorerc1400

shackerellc1420

brethel1440

never-thrift1440

vagrant1444

ne'er-thrifta1450

never-thrivinga1450

nebulona1475

breelc1485

naughty pack?1534

brathel1542

carrion1547

slim1548

unsel155.

pelf1551

shifterc1562

rag1566

wandrel?1567

land-loper1570

nothing-worth1580

baggage1594

roly-poly1602

bash-rag1603

arrant1605

ragabash?1609

flabergullion1611

hilding1611

hard bargain1612

slubberdegullion1612

vauneant1621

knick-knacker1622

idle-pack1624

slabberdegullion1653

thimble-maker1654

whiffler1659

never-do-well1664

good-for-nought1671

ne'er-be-good1675

shack1682

vagabond1686

shabaroon1699

shag-bag1699

houndsfoot1710

ne'er-do-well1737

trumpery1738

rap1742

hallion1789

scamp1808

waffie1808

ne'er-do-good1814

vaurien1829

sculpin1834

shicer1846

good-for-nothing1847

wastrel1847

scallywag1848

shack-bag1855

beat1865

toe-rag1875

rodney1877

toe-ragger1896

low-lifer1902

punk1904

lowlife1909

ringtail1916

git1939

no-hoper1944

schlub1950

piss artist1962

dead leg1964

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. ii. sig. B How now, good man slaue? what, Rowle Powle [1616 rowle-powle; 1640 rowley powley..; 1692 rowly powly]? all riuals, Rascal?

1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. D^v Ile haue thee in league first with these two rowly powlies.

1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. F1 Sause box, rowly powly, am I not your master?

a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. ii. 15 in Wks. (1640) III What? Rowle-powle? Maple-face? All fellowes?

a1859 W. Watt Poems & Songs (1860) 352 Now mony a scowry prick-the-loop, And ragged rowly-powly, Flock to the fair.

a. Any of various games which feature the rolling of a ball or other object; spec. roulette. Now historical.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun]

troll-madam1572

nine holes1573

pigeonholes1608

small trunksc1610

hole1611

trucks1671

roly-poly1707

Mississippi1728

bumble-puppy1794

bubble the justice1801

bagatelle1819

cockamaroo1850

pigs in clover1889

pinball1911

pinball game1911

Skee-Ball1923

Corinthian bagatelle1933

pachinko1949

1707 Diverting Muse 160 Here's a cozening Game With a Dutchify'd Name, Most commonly call'd Rowly Powly Besides Women and Dice, And all manner of Vice, That can humour a Fool in his Folly.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. i. 6 If this be your Play.., let us begin some Diversion; what d'ye think of Rouly-pouly, or a Country-Dance?

1730 in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) I. 374 Lady Betty and herself play only at quadrille; but the Duchess of Marlborough takes to losing her money at roly-poly.

1745 Act 18 Geo. II c. 34 §1 A certain pernicious Game called Roulet, or Roly-poly is daily practised.

a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) II. xvi. 262 The Games of Rowly Powly and Passage..all these Games were suppressed by Parliament.

1759 Brit. Chron. 17 Aug. 163 As some men were playing at Rolly poley at the Bird-cage alehouse.

1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes iii. vii. 204 Half-bowl is practised to this day in Hertfordshire, where it is commonly called rolly-polly.

1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun I. 76 To a luxurious supper succeeded wines,..fire and flames, and rolly-polly on the floor.

1847 Illustr. London News 6 Nov. 302/1 Restore roulette and rowley-powley to the Surrey hills, and the Knaves-mire flats.

1883 Longman's Mag. Apr. 655 [At Haddington Fair] there are..travelling photographers, merry-go-rounds.., games of rolly-polly [etc.].

1932 C. L. Ewen Lotteries & Sweepstakes iv. 95 We may picture games of hazard such as roulette, or roly-poly as it was sometimes termed.

2000 J. Burnett Riot, Revelry & Rout iv. 39 Rowley-powley was a game in which a stick was thrown at a number of pins or skittles. It was common at fairs and races in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

b. A game in which people, esp. children, roll down a bank or grassy slope.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others

buckle-pit1532

marrowbone1533

put-pin?1577

primus secundus1584

fox in the hole1585

haltering of Hick's mare1585

muss1591

pushpin1598

Jack-in-the-box1600

a penny in the forehead1602

buckerels1649

bumdockdousse1653

peck-point1653

toro1660

wheelbarrow1740

thread-needle1751

thrush-a-thrush1766

runaway ring?1790

Gregory1801

pick-point1801

fighting cocks1807

runaway knock1813

tit-tat-toe1818

French and English1820

honeypots1821

roly-poly1821

tickle-tail1821

pottle1822

King of Cantland1825

tip-top-castle1834

tile1837

statue1839

chip stone1843

hen and chickens1843

king of the castle1843

King Caesar1849

rap-jacket1870

old witch1881

tick-tack-toe1884

twos and threes1896

last across (the road)1904

step1909

king of the hill1928

Pooh-sticks1928

trick or treat1928

stare-you-out1932

king of the mountain1933

dab cricket1938

Urkey1938

trick-or-treating1941

seven-up1950

squashed tomato1959

slot-racing1965

Pog1993

knights-

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 128 I..often mark'd the place I play'd At ‘roly poly’ down the hill.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Rowly-powly, the act of rolling over and over.

1917 E. Thomas Literary Pilrgim in Eng. 228 By Swordy Well he could both tend the cattle and play at ‘roly- poly’ down the hill.

2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Oct. 20 The latter category is drawn by the pub's marvellous beer garden, with..an all-wooden play area and a perfectly pitched hill, which is ideal for playing games of roly-poly.

†c. A billiard-ball. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > ball

bowl1530

billiard-balla1637

pool ball1838

roly-poly1850

ivory1888

1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh vii Going to have a touch at the rolley-polleys, I suppose.

†3. humorous. A pea. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea

peaseeOE

pea1666

roly-poly1784

1784 Cries of London 32 Here's your large Rowley Powlies, no more than Six-pence a Peck.

1784 Cries of London 33 Rowley Powley, jolly Pease.

4. A podgy, plump, or stout person, esp. a child.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump

fatc893

frimOE

fullOE

overfatOE

greatOE

bald1297

roundc1300

encorsivea1340

fattishc1369

fleshyc1369

fleshlyc1374

repletea1398

largec1405

corsious1430

corpulentc1440

corsyc1440

fulsome1447

portlyc1487

corporate1509

foggy fata1529

corsive1530

foggish?1537

plump1545

fatty1552

fleshful1552

pubble1566

plum1570

pursy1576

well-fleshed1576

gross?1577

fog1582

forfatted1586

gulchy1598

bouksome1600

fat-fed1607

meatified1607

chuff1609

plumpya1616

bloat1638

blowze-like1647

obese1651

jollya1661

bloated1664

chubbed1674

pluffya1689

puffya1689

pussy1688

sappy1694

crummy1718

chubby1722

fodgel1724

well-padded1737

beefy1743

plumpish1753

pudsy1754

rotund1762

portable1770

lusty1777

roundabout1787

well-cushioned1802

plenitudinous1803

stout1804

embonpointc1806

roly-poly1808

adipose1810

roll-about1815

foggy1817

poddy1823

porky1828

hide-blown1834

tubby1835

stoutish1836

tubbish1836

superfatted1841

pottle-bodied1842

pincushiony1851

opulent1882

well-covered1884

well-upholstered1886

butterball1888

endomorphic1888

tisty-tosty1888

pachyntic1890

barrel-bodied1894

overweight1899

pussy-gutted1906

upholstered1924

1808 European Mag. & London Rev. Nov. 19/1 The eye has its fire and consequence correspondent with the fierté belonging to a man of rank; the good-humoured rolly-polly which gave the appearance of twinkling stars to those organs, is no more.

1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 216 One little girl, a fat brown roly-poly, of three years old, beat time on her father's knee.

1908 Craftsman May 164 She had filled out amazingly to a veritable little roly-poly.

1969 G. Friel Grace & Miss Partridge v. 66 Och sure I remember you when you were a wee rolypoly, and look at you now! If you stood sidieways you'd never be noticed.

1990 Internat. H & E Monthly 91 38/4 The whole idea of naturism is to be natural I thought, to accept people as they are, that includes the roly-polys too!

†5. A kind of lively dance. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]

dance of Macabre?c1430

springc1450

lege de moya1529

bobc1550

lusty gallant1569

duret1613

fading1613

huckler1617

ground-measure1621

entry1631

slatter de pouchc1640

ballo1651

Irish trot1651

omnium gatheruma1652

clutterdepouch1652

upspring1654

passacaglia1659

shuffle1659

passacaille1667

flip-flap1676

chaconne1685

charmer1702

Cheshire-round1706

Louvre1729

stick dance1730

white joke1730

baby dance1744

Nancy Dawson1766

fricassee1775

bumpkin1785

Totentanz1789

Flora('s) dance1790

goombay1790

egg-dance1801

supper dance1820

Congo dance1823

slip-jig1829

bran-dance1833

roly-poly1833

Congo1835

mazy1841

furry1848

bull-dance1855

stampede1856

double-shuffling1859

frog dance1863

hokee-pokee1873

plait dance1876

slow dancing1884

snake dance1895

beast dance1900

soft-shoe1900

cakewalk1902

floral dance1911

snake dance1911

apache dance1912

grizzly bear1912

jazz dance1917

jazz dancing1917

jazz1919

wine-dance1920

camel-walk1921

furry dance1928

snake-dance1931

pas d'action1936

trance dancing1956

touch dance1965

hokey-cokey1966

moonwalk1969

moonwalking1983

Crip Walk1989

mapantsula1990

1833 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry 2nd Ser. I. 44 The usual variety of Irish dances—the reel, jig, fling, three-part-reel, four-part-reel, rowly-powly.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 135/2 When I danced, it was merely a comic dance—what we call a ‘roley poley’.

6. A pudding made of a sheet of suet pastry covered with jam or fruit, formed into a roll, and steamed or baked. Also (in extended use) with a savoury filling.Cf. earlier C. 3.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > suet puddings

whiting1674

suet pudding1694

roly-poly1835

queen pudding1839

queen's pudding1852

suety Isaac1890

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > sweet or fruit puddings

white pudding1588

quaking puddinga1665

apple pudding1708

cowslip pudding1723

plum pudding1811

roly-poly pudding1821

black cap1822

amber pudding1829

bird's nest pudding1829

slump1831

Bakewell pudding1833

roly-poly1835

dog in a (or the) blanket1842

castle pudding1845

ice pudding1846

pan pie1846

dick1849

roll-up1856

canary pudding1861

roly1861

treacle pud1861

Brown Betty1864

summer pudding1875

parfait1884

schalet1884

Sally Lunn pudding1892

Tommy1895

queen of puddings1903

layer-pudding1909

clafoutis1926

shrikhand1950

chocolate fondant1971

mud-pie1975

tiramisu1982

lava cake1994

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > meat puddings

haggis pudding1545

mart pudding1590

stuckling1825

baby's head1905

steak and kidney1910

roly-poly1922

1835 I. Hurlstone Fatal Interview 113 I have heard such puddings called blankets and sheets, and a hunting pudding; but commonly we call it a rolley polley.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxv. 137 As for the roly-poly, it was too good.

1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 247 Our menu not bad—carrot soup (potted), mutton pudding,..and marmalade roly-poly.

1918 DSG Bk. of Recipes (Grahamstown, S. Afr.) (ed. 3) 8 Shape the mixture [including beef or meat sausage] like a thick roly-poly, tie in a dry, clean cloth. Steam two hours.

1922 Mariner's Mirror 8 222/1 ‘Steerage Hammock’: A meat roly-poly. It was usually made of the salt pork ration rolled up in dough and lashed up in a cloth like a hammock.

1950 ‘J. Tey’ To love & be Wise xii. 152 Grant ate the very good roly-poly without relish.

2006 Countryman Dec. 36/1 We love comforting fare in winter—classics like jam roly-poly.

7. Australian. Any of various plants of arid regions that separate from their roots when dry and form light globular masses which are rolled around by the wind (cf. tumble-weed n. at tumble- comb. form 1); such a mass of plant material; spec. the Russian thistle, Salsola kali, a plant of Eurasian origin that is widely naturalized in Australia.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > glasswort or barilla

glass-weed1568

alkali1578

kali1578

glasswort1597

rock samphire1597

saltwort1597

soda1658

barilla1766

kelpwort1787

Salsola1801

roly-poly1857

Russian thistle1884

1857 D. Bunce Australasiatic Reminisc. xii. 168 These weeds grow in the form of a large ball... No sooner were a few of these balls (or, as we were in the habit of calling them, ‘rolly-poleys’) taken up with the current of air [etc.].

1865 J. E. Tenison-Woods Hist. Discov. & Exploration Austral. II. 468 In the dry season it withers, and is easily broken off and rolled about by the winds, whence it is called roley-poley by the settlers.

1896 B. Spencer Thro' Larapinta Land 13 On the loamy flats..the most noticeable plant is Salsola kali, popularly known as the Rolly-polly.

1912 B. Spencer & F. J. Gillen Across Austral. 42 One of the most characteristic plants of this part of the country is the so-called roly-poly (Salsola kali).

1959 M. Raymond Smiley roams Road 40 The huge, dead round plants, snapped off by the wind, came tumbling across the plain. ‘Aw, they're only ole rolly-pollies.’

1976 K. Brown Knock Ten 54 He went stumbling through the high clumps of roly-poly and prickly bush thick in the gullies.

1978 L. Horsphol Turn down Empty Glass 158 The balls of tumble-weed (or rolly-polly), as many Australians call them..were catherine-wheeling past my car on their endless journeys across the stony desert.

†8. A roll or coil of hair. Obsolete. rare.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > coil or knot of hair

bob1688

chignon1783

puff1839

krobylos1850

cadogan1852

waterfall1859

cob1865

roly-poly1866

Grecian coil1874

Psyche knot1874

catogan1885

coil1888

pouf1893

bun1894

French roll1910

neck-roll1920

Grecian knot1931

1866 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 7/5 The German ladies are seen to be tremendous in back hair, front cascades, side bulbs, transverse roly-polies.

9. colloquial (North American). = roly-poly bug n. at Compounds 2.

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1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird xxv. 251 A roly-poly had found his way inside the house; I reasoned that the tiny varmint had crawled up the steps.

1968 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 631/1 Roly-poly—alternate term for the little bugs with a lot of legs that roll up into a ball.

1997 Ukiah (Calif.) Daily Jrnl. 27 May 14/1 Find a few rolypolies. Look under any old rock.

2000 Crustaceana 73 576 I investigated the daily and circadian rhythm of locomotor activity of a terrestrial crustacean, the pill bug (‘roly-poly’).

2009 Denver Post (Nexis) 25 July d6 Kids will..study everything from rocks and clay to roly-polys, beetles and worms.

B. adv.

†1. Without hesitation; without distinction. Obsolete.

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1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. B2^v Rowlie, powlie, our wiues shall lye at your commaund.

1605 S. Rowlands Hell's broke Loose 17 Wee'le ayme our thoughts on high, at Honors marke: All rowly, powly; Tayler, Smyth, and Clarke.

2. So as to roll or tumble.

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1880 Zion's Herald 26 Aug. 278/4 Bending a little too far forward, over she went roly-poly, higglety-pigglety, right into the pen.

1906 Games Bk. for Boys & Girls 309 When they sing, ‘We'll all tumble down,’ over they go, roly-poly on the grass.

1981 J. Melville Murder has Pretty Face iii. 71 The ground slopes..the weight of the body would carry it down into the river, roly poly.

2000 W. Wall Alice Falling 31 A child landing on the broken springs of the back seat and rolling roly-poly against the far door laughing.

C. adj.

†1. Perhaps: trifling, worthless. Obsolete.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless

naughteOE

unworthc960

nought worthOE

unworthya1240

vaina1300

lewd1362

base?1510

to be nothing toc1520

stark naught1528

nothing worth1535

worthilessa1542

draffish1543

baggage1548

dunghill?1555

valureless1563

toyish1572

worthless1573

out (forth) of door (also doors)1574

leaden1577

riff-raff1577

drafty1582

fecklessc1586

dudgeon?1589

nought-worth1589

tenpenny1592

wanwordy?a1595

shotten herring1598

nugatory1603

unvalued1604

priceless1614

unvaluable1615

valuelessa1616

waste1616

trashya1620

draffy1624

stramineous1624

invaluable1640

roly-poly?1645

nugatorious1646

perquisquilian1647

niffling1649

lazy1671

wanworth1724

little wortha1754

flimsy1756

waff1788

null1790

nothingy1801

nothingly1802

twopenny-halfpenny1809

not worth a flaw1810

garbage1817

peanut1836

duffing1839

trash1843

no-account1845

no-count1851

punky1859

rummagy1872

junky1880

skilligalee1883

footle1894

punk1896

wherry-go-nimble1901

junk1908

rinky-dink1913

schlock1916

tripe1927

duff1938

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

expendable1942

(strictly) for the birds1943

tripey1955

schlocky1960

naff1964

dipshit1968

cack1978

?1645 J. Taylor Most Learned & Eloquent Speech 6 That we have plotted and laboured long to turne this glorious Monarchy, into a pelting roley poley Independent Anarchy.

2. Short and stout; podgy, dumpy, plump.

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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad

short shoulderedc1405

bunting1584

squaddy1593

chubby1611

truncheon1611

squat1630

squabbish1666

truss1674

squab1675

squad1675

stocky1676

punch1679

trunch1683

squat1688

stub1711

fodgel1724

thick-set1724

puddy1747

chunky1749

dumpy1750

squabby1754

knurly1758

clunch1776

trunchy1778

fubsy1780

punchy1780

humpty-dumpty1785

trunched1787

pudgy1788

fubby1790

runty1807

squattish1809

roly-poly1818

stumpy1822

hoddy-doddy1824

spuddya1825

hodmandod1825

stubby1831

podgy1832

fubsical1834

dumpty1847

fatling1847

stuggy1847

nuggety1856

cloddy1876

blocky1879

chumpy188.

cobby1883

squidgy1891

stockish1913

pyknic1925

humpisha1935

1818 Lady Morgan Florence Macarthy II. iv. 195 The fat pretty rolly polly soul, with the brogue in her shoulders!

1853 D. M. Mulock Agatha's Husband II. i. 13 Cottages, in the doors of which a few rolypoly, open-eyed children stood.

1865 D. M. Mulock Christian's Mistake 44 A little roly-poly woman, with a meek, round, fair-complexioned face.

1909 R. O'Neill in Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 28/1 The reason why these funny, roly-poly creatures are called Kewpies..is because they look like little Cupids.

1958 Spectator 10 Oct. 482/1 A post-war working-class family..—the grey letch of a father, his jolly rolypoly wife and their prissy daughter.

2004 T. Wolfe I am Charlotte Simmons x. 208 They came upon a roly-poly boy in a blue button-down shirt and khakis.

3. Designating a type of pudding which has been made by rolling; now spec. one made of a sheet of suet pastry covered with jam or fruit, formed into a roll, and steamed or baked. Chiefly in roly-poly pudding.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > sweet or fruit puddings

white pudding1588

quaking puddinga1665

apple pudding1708

cowslip pudding1723

plum pudding1811

roly-poly pudding1821

black cap1822

amber pudding1829

bird's nest pudding1829

slump1831

Bakewell pudding1833

roly-poly1835

dog in a (or the) blanket1842

castle pudding1845

ice pudding1846

pan pie1846

dick1849

roll-up1856

canary pudding1861

roly1861

treacle pud1861

Brown Betty1864

summer pudding1875

parfait1884

schalet1884

Sally Lunn pudding1892

Tommy1895

queen of puddings1903

layer-pudding1909

clafoutis1926

shrikhand1950

chocolate fondant1971

mud-pie1975

tiramisu1982

lava cake1994

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 563/1 They may indeed enable the worthy Doctor..to descant with much precision on the scientific preparation of roly-poly dumplings.

1830 W. Clarke 3 Courses & Dessert 123 A roley-poley bolus, worked up wid water, in the hollow of your hand.

1839 Q. Rev. Dec. 16 Some of the little girls..are carrying great twopenny lumps of apple-pudding, or of heavy pieces of a cylindrical composition commonly called ‘rolly-polly pudding’.

1907 M. B. Grundy Dimbie & I 28 This happiness is qualified when she gives us roly-poly pudding more than once every ten days.

1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. ii. vii. 220 She made nine or ten roly-poly puddings every day of her life, and dropped 'em into the pot at intervals so there was allus one ready whenever one of her sons come in.

1990 A. S. Byatt Possession viii. 145 They dined..on pieces of frozen cod and chips and a rather good jam rolypoly pudding.

Compounds

C1. Compounds of the adjective.

roly-poly looking adj.

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1840 R. Bulwer-Lytton Budget of Bubble Family II. ii. 43 A short, fat, roly-poly-looking man, with a well-fed, bread-and-milk sort of face.

1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 147 The plumage all..puffy, making very pretty ‘roly-poly’ looking objects.

2007 Woodstock (Ont.) Sentinel-Rev. (Nexis) 29 Jan. 9 Many wondered..how a short, roly-poly looking guy could be so nimble in goal.

C2. Compounds of the noun.

roly-poly bug n. colloquial (North American) a small invertebrate (as a woodlouse or a pill millipede) that rolls itself into a ball when disturbed.

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1937 San Antonio (Texas) Light 28 May a13/4 Our fine-feathered friend..wants to rent a duck (not buy one) to eat up all the little, round, roly-poly bugs in his garden.

1990 R. Blount First Hubby 171 I spent a lot of time lifting the rocks to find roly-poly bugs and sometimes little snakes.

2009 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 11 July f2 Neighbourhood beetles, worms, roly-poly bugs and butterflies are fascinating to kids.

roly-poly grass n. Australian = sense A. 7.

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1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 100 Panicum macractinum,..‘Roly-poly Grass’. This species produces immense dry and spreading panicles.

1946 W. E. Harney North of 23° 61 The rolypoly grass bounding past, jumping and leaping in the wind.

2008 A. Jones Put Billy On xix.196 Roly-poly grass spun jauntily across our path to pile high against the fences.

roly-poly table n. a table at which games of roly-poly (sense A. 2a) are played; spec. a roulette table.

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1747 S. Fielding Familiar Lett. David Simple I. 84 I did not go to the Roly-poly or Card-Tables.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lviii. 241 I consoled myself with the love of 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.

1753 G. Wollaston Life & Hist. Pilgrim i. 34 He determined to try his fortune at gaming, and accordingly went to a roly-poly table in Drury-Lane.

1907 Domest. Engin. 24 Aug. 192/1 When anyone says ‘fortune teller’ to Bob he will duck and come up on the other side to roll the balls at a Japanese roly-poly table.

1999 D. Brailsford Taste for Diversions ii. 44 There was probably also a miniature version of this since Birmingham licensees were also under threat if they kept ‘Roly-poly’ tables.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	roly-poly
释义	roly-polyn.adv.adj. Brit. /ˌrəʊlɪˈpəʊli/, U.S. /ˌroʊliˈpoʊli/ Inflections: Plural roly-polies, roly-polys. Forms: 1600s rowle-powle, 1600s 1800s roley-poley, 1600s (1900s– Scottish) rowlie-powlie, 1600s– roly-poly, 1600s– rowley-powley (now chiefly regional), 1600s– rowly-powly (now chiefly regional), 1700s rouly-pouly, 1700s rowly-powl (Scottish), 1700s (1800s Scottish) rowley-powly, 1700s–1800s rolly-poley, 1700s–1800s rolly-pooly, 1700s– rolly-polly, 1800s roley-boley, 1800s rolley-polley, 1800s rollie-poly (Scottish), 1800s rolli-powley (English regional), 1800s roly-poley, 1800s roulie-poulie (Scottish), 1900s– rollie-polie (Scottish), 2000s– rollie-pollie. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: roll v.² Etymology: Apparently a reduplication of roll v.², with variation of the initial consonant and suffixation (compare -y suffix¹). Compare later rolly adj.The semantic motivation of sense A. 1 is unclear; with the second element in this sense perhaps compare poll n.¹ With sense A. 6 compare later roly n. A. n. †1. A worthless person; a rascal. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] harlot?c1225 truantc1290 shreward1297 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 custronc1400 knapea1450 sloven?a1475 limmerc1485 knavatec1506 smaik?1507 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 varletc1540 losthope?c1550 makeshift1554 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 crack-halter1573 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 scaba1592 bezonian1592 slave1592 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 roly-poly1602 canter1608 cantler1611 gue1612 fraudsman1613 Cathayana1616 crack-hempa1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 trickster1711 shake-bag1794 sinner1809 cad1838 badmash1843 scattermouch1892 jazzbo1914 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person brethelingc1275 filec1300 dogc1330 ribald1340 waynouna1350 waster1352 lorel1362 losel1362 land-leaper1377 triflera1382 brothelc1390 javelc1400 leftc1400 lorerc1400 shackerellc1420 brethel1440 never-thrift1440 vagrant1444 ne'er-thrifta1450 never-thrivinga1450 nebulona1475 breelc1485 naughty pack?1534 brathel1542 carrion1547 slim1548 unsel155. pelf1551 shifterc1562 rag1566 wandrel?1567 land-loper1570 nothing-worth1580 baggage1594 roly-poly1602 bash-rag1603 arrant1605 ragabash?1609 flabergullion1611 hilding1611 hard bargain1612 slubberdegullion1612 vauneant1621 knick-knacker1622 idle-pack1624 slabberdegullion1653 thimble-maker1654 whiffler1659 never-do-well1664 good-for-nought1671 ne'er-be-good1675 shack1682 vagabond1686 shabaroon1699 shag-bag1699 houndsfoot1710 ne'er-do-well1737 trumpery1738 rap1742 hallion1789 scamp1808 waffie1808 ne'er-do-good1814 vaurien1829 sculpin1834 shicer1846 good-for-nothing1847 wastrel1847 scallywag1848 shack-bag1855 beat1865 toe-rag1875 rodney1877 toe-ragger1896 low-lifer1902 punk1904 lowlife1909 ringtail1916 git1939 no-hoper1944 schlub1950 piss artist1962 dead leg1964 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster i. ii. sig. B How now, good man slaue? what, Rowle Powle [1616 rowle-powle; 1640 rowley powley..; 1692 rowly powly]? all riuals, Rascal? View more context for this quotation 1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. D^v Ile haue thee in league first with these two rowly powlies. 1609 R. Armin Hist. Two Maids More-clacke sig. F1 Sause box, rowly powly, am I not your master? a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. ii. 15 in Wks. (1640) III What? Rowle-powle? Maple-face? All fellowes? View more context for this quotation a1859 W. Watt Poems & Songs (1860) 352 Now mony a scowry prick-the-loop, And ragged rowly-powly, Flock to the fair. 2. a. Any of various games which feature the rolling of a ball or other object; spec. roulette. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun] troll-madam1572 nine holes1573 pigeonholes1608 small trunksc1610 hole1611 trucks1671 roly-poly1707 Mississippi1728 bumble-puppy1794 bubble the justice1801 bagatelle1819 cockamaroo1850 pigs in clover1889 pinball1911 pinball game1911 Skee-Ball1923 Corinthian bagatelle1933 pachinko1949 1707 Diverting Muse 160 Here's a cozening Game With a Dutchify'd Name, Most commonly call'd Rowly Powly Besides Women and Dice, And all manner of Vice, That can humour a Fool in his Folly. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. i. 6 If this be your Play.., let us begin some Diversion; what d'ye think of Rouly-pouly, or a Country-Dance? 1730 in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) I. 374 Lady Betty and herself play only at quadrille; but the Duchess of Marlborough takes to losing her money at roly-poly. 1745 Act 18 Geo. II c. 34 §1 A certain pernicious Game called Roulet, or Roly-poly is daily practised. a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) II. xvi. 262 The Games of Rowly Powly and Passage..all these Games were suppressed by Parliament. 1759 Brit. Chron. 17 Aug. 163 As some men were playing at Rolly poley at the Bird-cage alehouse. 1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes iii. vii. 204 Half-bowl is practised to this day in Hertfordshire, where it is commonly called rolly-polly. 1807 E. S. Barrett Rising Sun I. 76 To a luxurious supper succeeded wines,..fire and flames, and rolly-polly on the floor. 1847 Illustr. London News 6 Nov. 302/1 Restore roulette and rowley-powley to the Surrey hills, and the Knaves-mire flats. 1883 Longman's Mag. Apr. 655 [At Haddington Fair] there are..travelling photographers, merry-go-rounds.., games of rolly-polly [etc.]. 1932 C. L. Ewen Lotteries & Sweepstakes iv. 95 We may picture games of hazard such as roulette, or roly-poly as it was sometimes termed. 2000 J. Burnett Riot, Revelry & Rout iv. 39 Rowley-powley was a game in which a stick was thrown at a number of pins or skittles. It was common at fairs and races in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. b. A game in which people, esp. children, roll down a bank or grassy slope. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others buckle-pit1532 marrowbone1533 put-pin?1577 primus secundus1584 fox in the hole1585 haltering of Hick's mare1585 muss1591 pushpin1598 Jack-in-the-box1600 a penny in the forehead1602 buckerels1649 bumdockdousse1653 peck-point1653 toro1660 wheelbarrow1740 thread-needle1751 thrush-a-thrush1766 runaway ring?1790 Gregory1801 pick-point1801 fighting cocks1807 runaway knock1813 tit-tat-toe1818 French and English1820 honeypots1821 roly-poly1821 tickle-tail1821 pottle1822 King of Cantland1825 tip-top-castle1834 tile1837 statue1839 chip stone1843 hen and chickens1843 king of the castle1843 King Caesar1849 rap-jacket1870 old witch1881 tick-tack-toe1884 twos and threes1896 last across (the road)1904 step1909 king of the hill1928 Pooh-sticks1928 trick or treat1928 stare-you-out1932 king of the mountain1933 dab cricket1938 Urkey1938 trick-or-treating1941 seven-up1950 squashed tomato1959 slot-racing1965 Pog1993 knights- 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 128 I..often mark'd the place I play'd At ‘roly poly’ down the hill. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Rowly-powly, the act of rolling over and over. 1917 E. Thomas Literary Pilrgim in Eng. 228 By Swordy Well he could both tend the cattle and play at ‘roly- poly’ down the hill. 2007 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 6 Oct. 20 The latter category is drawn by the pub's marvellous beer garden, with..an all-wooden play area and a perfectly pitched hill, which is ideal for playing games of roly-poly. †c. A billiard-ball. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > ball bowl1530 billiard-balla1637 pool ball1838 roly-poly1850 ivory1888 1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh vii Going to have a touch at the rolley-polleys, I suppose. †3. humorous. A pea. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea peaseeOE pea1666 roly-poly1784 1784 Cries of London 32 Here's your large Rowley Powlies, no more than Six-pence a Peck. 1784 Cries of London 33 Rowley Powley, jolly Pease. 4. A podgy, plump, or stout person, esp. a child. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump fatc893 frimOE fullOE overfatOE greatOE bald1297 roundc1300 encorsivea1340 fattishc1369 fleshyc1369 fleshlyc1374 repletea1398 largec1405 corsious1430 corpulentc1440 corsyc1440 fulsome1447 portlyc1487 corporate1509 foggy fata1529 corsive1530 foggish?1537 plump1545 fatty1552 fleshful1552 pubble1566 plum1570 pursy1576 well-fleshed1576 gross?1577 fog1582 forfatted1586 gulchy1598 bouksome1600 fat-fed1607 meatified1607 chuff1609 plumpya1616 bloat1638 blowze-like1647 obese1651 jollya1661 bloated1664 chubbed1674 pluffya1689 puffya1689 pussy1688 sappy1694 crummy1718 chubby1722 fodgel1724 well-padded1737 beefy1743 plumpish1753 pudsy1754 rotund1762 portable1770 lusty1777 roundabout1787 well-cushioned1802 plenitudinous1803 stout1804 embonpointc1806 roly-poly1808 adipose1810 roll-about1815 foggy1817 poddy1823 porky1828 hide-blown1834 tubby1835 stoutish1836 tubbish1836 superfatted1841 pottle-bodied1842 pincushiony1851 opulent1882 well-covered1884 well-upholstered1886 butterball1888 endomorphic1888 tisty-tosty1888 pachyntic1890 barrel-bodied1894 overweight1899 pussy-gutted1906 upholstered1924 1808 European Mag. & London Rev. Nov. 19/1 The eye has its fire and consequence correspondent with the fierté belonging to a man of rank; the good-humoured rolly-polly which gave the appearance of twinkling stars to those organs, is no more. 1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 216 One little girl, a fat brown roly-poly, of three years old, beat time on her father's knee. 1908 Craftsman May 164 She had filled out amazingly to a veritable little roly-poly. 1969 G. Friel Grace & Miss Partridge v. 66 Och sure I remember you when you were a wee rolypoly, and look at you now! If you stood sidieways you'd never be noticed. 1990 Internat. H & E Monthly 91 38/4 The whole idea of naturism is to be natural I thought, to accept people as they are, that includes the roly-polys too! †5. A kind of lively dance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun] dance of Macabre?c1430 springc1450 lege de moya1529 bobc1550 lusty gallant1569 duret1613 fading1613 huckler1617 ground-measure1621 entry1631 slatter de pouchc1640 ballo1651 Irish trot1651 omnium gatheruma1652 clutterdepouch1652 upspring1654 passacaglia1659 shuffle1659 passacaille1667 flip-flap1676 chaconne1685 charmer1702 Cheshire-round1706 Louvre1729 stick dance1730 white joke1730 baby dance1744 Nancy Dawson1766 fricassee1775 bumpkin1785 Totentanz1789 Flora('s) dance1790 goombay1790 egg-dance1801 supper dance1820 Congo dance1823 slip-jig1829 bran-dance1833 roly-poly1833 Congo1835 mazy1841 furry1848 bull-dance1855 stampede1856 double-shuffling1859 frog dance1863 hokee-pokee1873 plait dance1876 slow dancing1884 snake dance1895 beast dance1900 soft-shoe1900 cakewalk1902 floral dance1911 snake dance1911 apache dance1912 grizzly bear1912 jazz dance1917 jazz dancing1917 jazz1919 wine-dance1920 camel-walk1921 furry dance1928 snake-dance1931 pas d'action1936 trance dancing1956 touch dance1965 hokey-cokey1966 moonwalk1969 moonwalking1983 Crip Walk1989 mapantsula1990 1833 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry 2nd Ser. I. 44 The usual variety of Irish dances—the reel, jig, fling, three-part-reel, four-part-reel, rowly-powly. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 135/2 When I danced, it was merely a comic dance—what we call a ‘roley poley’. 6. A pudding made of a sheet of suet pastry covered with jam or fruit, formed into a roll, and steamed or baked. Also (in extended use) with a savoury filling.Cf. earlier C. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > suet puddings whiting1674 suet pudding1694 roly-poly1835 queen pudding1839 queen's pudding1852 suety Isaac1890 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > sweet or fruit puddings white pudding1588 quaking puddinga1665 apple pudding1708 cowslip pudding1723 plum pudding1811 roly-poly pudding1821 black cap1822 amber pudding1829 bird's nest pudding1829 slump1831 Bakewell pudding1833 roly-poly1835 dog in a (or the) blanket1842 castle pudding1845 ice pudding1846 pan pie1846 dick1849 roll-up1856 canary pudding1861 roly1861 treacle pud1861 Brown Betty1864 summer pudding1875 parfait1884 schalet1884 Sally Lunn pudding1892 Tommy1895 queen of puddings1903 layer-pudding1909 clafoutis1926 shrikhand1950 chocolate fondant1971 mud-pie1975 tiramisu1982 lava cake1994 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > meat puddings haggis pudding1545 mart pudding1590 stuckling1825 baby's head1905 steak and kidney1910 roly-poly1922 1835 I. Hurlstone Fatal Interview 113 I have heard such puddings called blankets and sheets, and a hunting pudding; but commonly we call it a rolley polley. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxv. 137 As for the roly-poly, it was too good. 1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 247 Our menu not bad—carrot soup (potted), mutton pudding,..and marmalade roly-poly. 1918 DSG Bk. of Recipes (Grahamstown, S. Afr.) (ed. 3) 8 Shape the mixture [including beef or meat sausage] like a thick roly-poly, tie in a dry, clean cloth. Steam two hours. 1922 Mariner's Mirror 8 222/1 ‘Steerage Hammock’: A meat roly-poly. It was usually made of the salt pork ration rolled up in dough and lashed up in a cloth like a hammock. 1950 ‘J. Tey’ To love & be Wise xii. 152 Grant ate the very good roly-poly without relish. 2006 Countryman Dec. 36/1 We love comforting fare in winter—classics like jam roly-poly. 7. Australian. Any of various plants of arid regions that separate from their roots when dry and form light globular masses which are rolled around by the wind (cf. tumble-weed n. at tumble- comb. form 1); such a mass of plant material; spec. the Russian thistle, Salsola kali, a plant of Eurasian origin that is widely naturalized in Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > glasswort or barilla glass-weed1568 alkali1578 kali1578 glasswort1597 rock samphire1597 saltwort1597 soda1658 barilla1766 kelpwort1787 Salsola1801 roly-poly1857 Russian thistle1884 1857 D. Bunce Australasiatic Reminisc. xii. 168 These weeds grow in the form of a large ball... No sooner were a few of these balls (or, as we were in the habit of calling them, ‘rolly-poleys’) taken up with the current of air [etc.]. 1865 J. E. Tenison-Woods Hist. Discov. & Exploration Austral. II. 468 In the dry season it withers, and is easily broken off and rolled about by the winds, whence it is called roley-poley by the settlers. 1896 B. Spencer Thro' Larapinta Land 13 On the loamy flats..the most noticeable plant is Salsola kali, popularly known as the Rolly-polly. 1912 B. Spencer & F. J. Gillen Across Austral. 42 One of the most characteristic plants of this part of the country is the so-called roly-poly (Salsola kali). 1959 M. Raymond Smiley roams Road 40 The huge, dead round plants, snapped off by the wind, came tumbling across the plain. ‘Aw, they're only ole rolly-pollies.’ 1976 K. Brown Knock Ten 54 He went stumbling through the high clumps of roly-poly and prickly bush thick in the gullies. 1978 L. Horsphol Turn down Empty Glass 158 The balls of tumble-weed (or rolly-polly), as many Australians call them..were catherine-wheeling past my car on their endless journeys across the stony desert. †8. A roll or coil of hair. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > coil or knot of hair bob1688 chignon1783 puff1839 krobylos1850 cadogan1852 waterfall1859 cob1865 roly-poly1866 Grecian coil1874 Psyche knot1874 catogan1885 coil1888 pouf1893 bun1894 French roll1910 neck-roll1920 Grecian knot1931 1866 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 7/5 The German ladies are seen to be tremendous in back hair, front cascades, side bulbs, transverse roly-polies. 9. colloquial (North American). = roly-poly bug n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1960 H. Lee To kill Mockingbird xxv. 251 A roly-poly had found his way inside the house; I reasoned that the tiny varmint had crawled up the steps. 1968 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 631/1 Roly-poly—alternate term for the little bugs with a lot of legs that roll up into a ball. 1997 Ukiah (Calif.) Daily Jrnl. 27 May 14/1 Find a few rolypolies. Look under any old rock. 2000 Crustaceana 73 576 I investigated the daily and circadian rhythm of locomotor activity of a terrestrial crustacean, the pill bug (‘roly-poly’). 2009 Denver Post (Nexis) 25 July d6 Kids will..study everything from rocks and clay to roly-polys, beetles and worms. B. adv. †1. Without hesitation; without distinction. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. B2^v Rowlie, powlie, our wiues shall lye at your commaund. 1605 S. Rowlands Hell's broke Loose 17 Wee'le ayme our thoughts on high, at Honors marke: All rowly, powly; Tayler, Smyth, and Clarke. 2. So as to roll or tumble. ΚΠ 1880 Zion's Herald 26 Aug. 278/4 Bending a little too far forward, over she went roly-poly, higglety-pigglety, right into the pen. 1906 Games Bk. for Boys & Girls 309 When they sing, ‘We'll all tumble down,’ over they go, roly-poly on the grass. 1981 J. Melville Murder has Pretty Face iii. 71 The ground slopes..the weight of the body would carry it down into the river, roly poly. 2000 W. Wall Alice Falling 31 A child landing on the broken springs of the back seat and rolling roly-poly against the far door laughing. C. adj. †1. Perhaps: trifling, worthless. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless naughteOE unworthc960 nought worthOE unworthya1240 vaina1300 lewd1362 base?1510 to be nothing toc1520 stark naught1528 nothing worth1535 worthilessa1542 draffish1543 baggage1548 dunghill?1555 valureless1563 toyish1572 worthless1573 out (forth) of door (also doors)1574 leaden1577 riff-raff1577 drafty1582 fecklessc1586 dudgeon?1589 nought-worth1589 tenpenny1592 wanwordy?a1595 shotten herring1598 nugatory1603 unvalued1604 priceless1614 unvaluable1615 valuelessa1616 waste1616 trashya1620 draffy1624 stramineous1624 invaluable1640 roly-poly?1645 nugatorious1646 perquisquilian1647 niffling1649 lazy1671 wanworth1724 little wortha1754 flimsy1756 waff1788 null1790 nothingy1801 nothingly1802 twopenny-halfpenny1809 not worth a flaw1810 garbage1817 peanut1836 duffing1839 trash1843 no-account1845 no-count1851 punky1859 rummagy1872 junky1880 skilligalee1883 footle1894 punk1896 wherry-go-nimble1901 junk1908 rinky-dink1913 schlock1916 tripe1927 duff1938 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 expendable1942 (strictly) for the birds1943 tripey1955 schlocky1960 naff1964 dipshit1968 cack1978 ?1645 J. Taylor Most Learned & Eloquent Speech 6 That we have plotted and laboured long to turne this glorious Monarchy, into a pelting roley poley Independent Anarchy. 2. Short and stout; podgy, dumpy, plump. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad short shoulderedc1405 bunting1584 squaddy1593 chubby1611 truncheon1611 squat1630 squabbish1666 truss1674 squab1675 squad1675 stocky1676 punch1679 trunch1683 squat1688 stub1711 fodgel1724 thick-set1724 puddy1747 chunky1749 dumpy1750 squabby1754 knurly1758 clunch1776 trunchy1778 fubsy1780 punchy1780 humpty-dumpty1785 trunched1787 pudgy1788 fubby1790 runty1807 squattish1809 roly-poly1818 stumpy1822 hoddy-doddy1824 spuddya1825 hodmandod1825 stubby1831 podgy1832 fubsical1834 dumpty1847 fatling1847 stuggy1847 nuggety1856 cloddy1876 blocky1879 chumpy188. cobby1883 squidgy1891 stockish1913 pyknic1925 humpisha1935 1818 Lady Morgan Florence Macarthy II. iv. 195 The fat pretty rolly polly soul, with the brogue in her shoulders! 1853 D. M. Mulock Agatha's Husband II. i. 13 Cottages, in the doors of which a few rolypoly, open-eyed children stood. 1865 D. M. Mulock Christian's Mistake 44 A little roly-poly woman, with a meek, round, fair-complexioned face. 1909 R. O'Neill in Ladies' Home Jrnl. Dec. 28/1 The reason why these funny, roly-poly creatures are called Kewpies..is because they look like little Cupids. 1958 Spectator 10 Oct. 482/1 A post-war working-class family..—the grey letch of a father, his jolly rolypoly wife and their prissy daughter. 2004 T. Wolfe I am Charlotte Simmons x. 208 They came upon a roly-poly boy in a blue button-down shirt and khakis. 3. Designating a type of pudding which has been made by rolling; now spec. one made of a sheet of suet pastry covered with jam or fruit, formed into a roll, and steamed or baked. Chiefly in roly-poly pudding. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > sweet or fruit puddings white pudding1588 quaking puddinga1665 apple pudding1708 cowslip pudding1723 plum pudding1811 roly-poly pudding1821 black cap1822 amber pudding1829 bird's nest pudding1829 slump1831 Bakewell pudding1833 roly-poly1835 dog in a (or the) blanket1842 castle pudding1845 ice pudding1846 pan pie1846 dick1849 roll-up1856 canary pudding1861 roly1861 treacle pud1861 Brown Betty1864 summer pudding1875 parfait1884 schalet1884 Sally Lunn pudding1892 Tommy1895 queen of puddings1903 layer-pudding1909 clafoutis1926 shrikhand1950 chocolate fondant1971 mud-pie1975 tiramisu1982 lava cake1994 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 563/1 They may indeed enable the worthy Doctor..to descant with much precision on the scientific preparation of roly-poly dumplings. 1830 W. Clarke 3 Courses & Dessert 123 A roley-poley bolus, worked up wid water, in the hollow of your hand. 1839 Q. Rev. Dec. 16 Some of the little girls..are carrying great twopenny lumps of apple-pudding, or of heavy pieces of a cylindrical composition commonly called ‘rolly-polly pudding’. 1907 M. B. Grundy Dimbie & I 28 This happiness is qualified when she gives us roly-poly pudding more than once every ten days. 1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. ii. vii. 220 She made nine or ten roly-poly puddings every day of her life, and dropped 'em into the pot at intervals so there was allus one ready whenever one of her sons come in. 1990 A. S. Byatt Possession viii. 145 They dined..on pieces of frozen cod and chips and a rather good jam rolypoly pudding. Compounds C1. Compounds of the adjective. roly-poly looking adj. ΚΠ 1840 R. Bulwer-Lytton Budget of Bubble Family II. ii. 43 A short, fat, roly-poly-looking man, with a well-fed, bread-and-milk sort of face. 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 147 The plumage all..puffy, making very pretty ‘roly-poly’ looking objects. 2007 Woodstock (Ont.) Sentinel-Rev. (Nexis) 29 Jan. 9 Many wondered..how a short, roly-poly looking guy could be so nimble in goal. C2. Compounds of the noun. roly-poly bug n. colloquial (North American) a small invertebrate (as a woodlouse or a pill millipede) that rolls itself into a ball when disturbed. ΚΠ 1937 San Antonio (Texas) Light 28 May a13/4 Our fine-feathered friend..wants to rent a duck (not buy one) to eat up all the little, round, roly-poly bugs in his garden. 1990 R. Blount First Hubby 171 I spent a lot of time lifting the rocks to find roly-poly bugs and sometimes little snakes. 2009 Times Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 11 July f2 Neighbourhood beetles, worms, roly-poly bugs and butterflies are fascinating to kids. roly-poly grass n. Australian = sense A. 7. ΚΠ 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 100 Panicum macractinum,..‘Roly-poly Grass’. This species produces immense dry and spreading panicles. 1946 W. E. Harney North of 23° 61 The rolypoly grass bounding past, jumping and leaping in the wind. 2008 A. Jones Put Billy On xix.196 Roly-poly grass spun jauntily across our path to pile high against the fences. roly-poly table n. a table at which games of roly-poly (sense A. 2a) are played; spec. a roulette table. ΚΠ 1747 S. Fielding Familiar Lett. David Simple I. 84 I did not go to the Roly-poly or Card-Tables. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lviii. 241 I consoled myself with the love of 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. 1753 G. Wollaston Life & Hist. Pilgrim i. 34 He determined to try his fortune at gaming, and accordingly went to a roly-poly table in Drury-Lane. 1907 Domest. Engin. 24 Aug. 192/1 When anyone says ‘fortune teller’ to Bob he will duck and come up on the other side to roll the balls at a Japanese roly-poly table. 1999 D. Brailsford Taste for Diversions ii. 44 There was probably also a miniature version of this since Birmingham licensees were also under threat if they kept ‘Roly-poly’ tables. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adv.adj.1602
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