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Roly-poly

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Noun

1. butterball, fat person, fatso, fatty, roly-poly

a rotund individual

2. roly-poly, roly-poly pudding

pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed

Adjective

3. dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby

short and plump

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Roly-poly

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adjective
1. 
plump, buxom, or rotund
noun plural -lies
2. British
a strip of suet pastry spread with jam, fruit, or a savoury mixture, rolled up, and baked or steamed as a pudding
3. 
a plump, buxom, or rotund person
4. Australian an informal name for tumbleweed

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Roly-poly

see synonyms of roly-poly
adjective
1. 
short and plump; pudgy
nounWord forms: plural ˈroˈly-polies
2. 
a roly-poly thing or person, esp. a child
3.  Chiefly British
a pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam, rolled up, and boiled, steamed, etc.
4.  Austral
a tumbleweed

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Roly-poly

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adj.
Short and plump; pudgy.
n. pl. ro·ly-po·lies
1. A short plump person or thing.
2. See pillbug.
3. Chiefly British A pudding made of jam or fruit rolled up in pastry dough and baked or steamed until soft.

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