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Roly-poly

adjective
1.
Short and plump.  Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby.





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"Roly-poly" Quotes from Famous Books



... I own to having had a liking for a good breakfast (fish, kidneys and eggs, with muffin or buttered toast and marmalade) as a start for the day. Then came luncheon—steak or chop or Irish stew, with a roly-poly pudding to follow, and a top-up of bread-and-butter and cheese. Tea, of course, at five o'clock, with more buttered toast, and then home to a good solid dinner of soup, fish and entree and joint and some sort of sweet. This just left room for ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, April 4, 1917 • Various
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Words linked to "Roly-poly" :   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Britain, pudding, thin person, fat, rolypoliness, U.K., large person, dumpy, UK


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