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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: short and plump [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly] n
1: a rotund individual [syn: fatso, fatty, fat person, roly-poly, butterball] [ant: scrag, skin and bones, thin person]
2: pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed [syn: roly-poly, roly-poly pudding]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: reduplication of roly, from ²roll Date: 1820 being short and pudgy ; rotund II. noun (plural -lies) Date: 1836 1. a roly-poly person or thing 2. British a sweet dough spread with a filling, rolled, and baked or steamed — called also roly-poly pudding

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 (also roly-poly pudding) a pudding made of a strip of suet pastry covered with jam etc., formed into a roll, and boiled or baked. 2 US a tumbler toy. 3 Austral. a bushy plant, esp. Salsola kali, that breaks off and is rolled by the wind. --adj. (usu. of a child) podgy, plump. Etymology: prob. formed on ROLL

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rolly-poly Roll"y-po`ly, n. A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed. -- a. Shaped like a rolly-poly; short and stout. [Written also roly-poly.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Roly-poly Ro"ly-po`ly, n. & a. Rolly-poly.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Roly-poly people are pleasantly fat and round. (INFORMAL) ...a short, roly-poly man with laughing eyes. ADJ: ADJ n