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roly-poly pudding

noun

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

• Syn: ↑roly-poly

• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain

• Hypernyms: ↑pudding

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roly-poly [roly-poly roly-polies] adjective, noun [ˌrəʊli ˈpəʊli] [ˌroʊli ˈpoʊli]

adjective only before noun (informal) (of people)

short, round and fat

Syn: ↑plump

 

Word Origin:

early 17th cent.: fanciful formation from the verb ↑roll.

 

noun (pl. roly-polies) (also ˌroly-poly ˈpudding) uncountable, countable (BrE)

a hot ↑dessert (= a sweet dish) made from ↑suet ↑pastry spread with jam and rolled up

 

Word Origin:

early 17th cent.: fanciful formation from the verb ↑roll.

 

Useful english dictionary. 2012.