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单词 tollie
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tollien.

Brit. /ˈtɒli/, U.S. /ˈtɑli/, Scottish English /ˈtɔlɪ/, /ˈtolɪ/
Forms: 1800s– toalie, 1800s– tolie, 1800s– tollie, 1900s– toley, 1900s– tolley, 1900s– tolly, 1900s– toly.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: doll n.3, -y suffix6.
Etymology: Apparently < doll n.3 + -y suffix6, with devoicing of the initial consonant (compare β. forms at doll n.3).Compare also Scots toldie lump, large marble, piece of excrement (20th cent.), probably an alteration of this word after doldie (see doll n.3).
Scottish.
1. An oatcake or other similarly round piece of bread. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [noun] > oatcake
havercakec1400
oatcakec1400
haverbreada1425
cake1434
grue1655
clap-bread1691
roundabout1706
farl1724
tollie1825
teething bannock1866
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. II. 579/2 Tolie, a small round cake of any kind of bread.
2. A piece of excrement or dung, a turd. Also: rubbish, nonsense. slang in later use.
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. II. 579/2 Tollie, a turd, Fife.
1973 A. Spence in Sc. Short Stories 161 ‘God, wid ye look at them!’ she said, laughing. ‘Lik flies roon a toly!’
2009 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 16 July 5 It matters for the fans who spent a fortune coming down here and watching that toley.
2018 @Johnburns90 17 Aug. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Just done a toley at work on my own lunch hour.
3. slang. An obnoxious person; a person who behaves objectionably.
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1985 M. Munro Patter 70 Toley... Sometimes used as a name for an objectionable person.
1996 C. Brookmyre Quite Ugly One Morning xxxi. 210 Another despicable toley who thinks his business plans are more important than the lives of, what, thirty people?
2002 R. Fairnie Scots Tung Wittins (SCOTS) No. 103 Thon's naethin but a haiverin tollie.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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