3. roly-poly Chiefly Brit. a sheet of biscuitdoughspread with jam, fruit, or the like, rolled up and steamed or baked.
Etymology: (1595–1605; earlier rowle powle, rowly-powly worthless fellow, game involving rolling balls, rhyming compound based on roll (v.); for second element cf. poll)
Definition of 'roly-poly'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)fatso, fatty, fat person, roly-poly, butterball a rotund individual
2. (adj)roly-poly, roly-poly pudding pudding made of suetpastryspread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
3. (adj)dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly short and plump
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