| 单词 | roly-poly |
| 释义 | roly-poly (once / 15370 pages) 1adjn 2n Someone who's roly-poly is small and round. Your fat little Corgi puppy is extra adorable because she's so roly-poly. A chubby baby, with dimpled elbows and fat little legs, could be described as roly-poly. When you use this word as a noun for a plump person, it's especially derogatory, but the baby bears at the zoo won't mind being called roly-polies. When someone talks about a roly-poly bug, they mean a pill millipede or a woodlouse, a small insect that can protectively roll itself into a ball. WORD FAMILYroly-poly USAGE EXAMPLESHe no longer resembles the roly-poly image on official posters. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Roly-poly Santa in his red and white suit is a more recent addition to Russian holiday celebrations. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) She would always be cute — it came with the black-and-white markings, the roly-poly demeanor — but she had reached that awkward age. Washington Post(Oct 23, 2016) 1 1adj short and plump Syn dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby fat having an (over)abundance of flesh 2n a rotund individual 2Syn|Ant|Hyper butterball, fat person, fatso, fatty scrag, skin and bones, thin person a person who is unusually thin and scrawny large person a person of greater than average size n pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed Syn|Hyper roly-poly pudding pudding any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed |
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