EGAVE

roly-poly

Meaning

  1. noun A toy that rights itself when pushed over. A short, plump person (especially a child).
  2. noun A toy that rights itself when pushed over.
  3. noun A short, plump person (especially a child).
  4. noun A forward roll or sideways roll.
  5. noun Synonym of tumbleweed (“any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place”); specifically, the prickly Russian thistle (Kali tragus or Salsola tragus).
  6. noun A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.
  7. noun In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).
  8. noun A mischievous or worthless person; a scoundrel, a rascal.

Similar words

fatty fatso fat person roly-poly pudding poly polymolecularity polyhedrality polygonial polyhedroid polyplet

Word family

roly-polies roly-poly pudding roly-polys

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