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ROLY-POLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
Synonyms:
roly-poly; roly-poly pudding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("roly-poly" is a kind of...):
pudding (any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Synonyms:
butterball; fat person; fatso; fatty; roly-poly
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("roly-poly" is a kind of...):
large person (a person of greater than average size)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
dumpy; podgy; pudgy; roly-poly; tubby
Classified under:
Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Derivation:
rolypoliness (the property of having a plump and round body)