Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - roly-poly
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Roly-poly
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I. adjective Etymology: reduplication of roly, from 2roll Date: 1820 being short and pudgy ; rotund II. noun (plural -lies) Date: 1836 1. a ~ person or thing 2. British a sweet dough spread with a filling, rolled, and baked or steamed — called also ~ pudding ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 (also roly-poly pudding) a pudding made of a strip of suet pastry covered with jam etc., formed into a roll, and boiled or baked. 2 US a tumbler toy. 3 Austral. a bushy plant, esp. Salsola kali, that breaks off and is rolled by the wind. --adj. (usu. of a child) podgy, plump. Etymology: prob. formed on ROLL ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. фруктовый рулет (также roly-poly pudding) 2. коротышка; толстячок 3. пухлый (обыкн. о ребенке) 4. полный, с брюшком ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun 1) пудинг с вареньем (тж. roly-poly pudding) 2) coll. коротышка (обыкн. о ребенке) 2. adj. coll. пухлый (о ребенке) ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 adj a roly-poly person is round and fat ~2 n a British sweet food made of jam1 (1) that is rolled up inside pastry ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 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." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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