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Definitions: Roly-poly |
Roly-polyNoun1. A rotund individual. 2. (British) pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "roly-poly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
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Literature | Roly-poly (pron. rowly-y powl-y). A crust with jam rolled up into a pudding; a little fat child. Roly is a thing rolled with the diminutive added. In some parts of Scotland the game of nine-pins is called rouly-pouly. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Roly-polySynonyms: fat person (n), fatso (n), fatty (n), roly-poly pudding (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: thin person (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Roly-poly |
| English words defined with "roly-poly": roly-poly pudding. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "roly-poly": roly-poly bond. (references) |
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| "Roly-poly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Roly-poly" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "roly-poly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 矮胖 (dumpy, short and stout), 扳不'' (tumbler), 不'翁 (tumbler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | roll-over obligation (roly-poly bond), roll-over CD (roll-over certificate of deposit, roly-poly certificate of deposit(CD)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | obligation taux renouvelé (roly-poly bond), certificat de dépôt taux renouvelé (roll-over certificate of deposit, roly-poly certificate of deposit(CD)). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vaskos ember, tömzsi ember, kis lekváros tekercs (roly poly), kis gömböc, gömbölyű kis ember. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oly-polyray пухлый (chubby, padded, plump, pudgy, roly poly, rotund, tubby). (various references) certificado de deposito con tipo de interes renovable (roll-over certificate of deposit, roly-poly certificate of deposit(CD)), bono con tipo de interes renovable (roly-poly bond). (various references) เตี้ยและอ้วนกลม (คำ"ูถูก), จ้ำม่ำ. (various references) rulo biçiminde meyveli puding (roly poly, roly-poly pudding), reçelli pudıng sarması (roly-poly pudding). (various references) bánh cuốn nhân mứt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Roly-poly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: roly-polying, roly-polys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-l-o-o-p-r-y-y" | |
-2 letters: poorly. | |
-3 letters: loopy, orlop. | |
-4 letters: loop, lory, ploy, poll, polo, poly, pool, poor, roll, ropy. | |
-5 letters: loo, lop, ply, pol, pro, pry. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-l-o-o-p-r-y-y" | |
+5 letters: polypropylene. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 6F 6C 79 2D 70 6F 6C 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01101111 01101100 01111001 00101101 01110000 01101111 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R o l y - p o l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 006F 006C 0079 002D 0070 006F 006C 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)528178911582817891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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