NOUN
- pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
- a rotund individual
ADJECTIVE
- short and plump
How To Use roly-poly In A Sentence
- A roly-poly toy, tilting doll, tumbler or wobbly man is a toy that rights itself when pushed over.
- EVERYONE knows Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. So letters sent to the roly-poly icon find their way to the small town of North Pole in Alaska, including those simply addressed to Santa.
- When she cooked rabbit stew, or a lovely jam roly-poly in iron pots, the windows steamed up while I turned the fan for the open fire.
- An old lady with a roly-poly figure waddled her way over to me and gave me a friendly smile.
- Bangers and mash and roly-poly pudding were on the menu and prizes were presented by Mayor, Councillor Barbara Shone for the most authentic costumes.
- Dylan was a "healthy, chunky, roly-poly boy," said his aunt, Amy Compton. Fairfax man sentenced to 8 years in son's death
- Little Augie lounged on a couch in the apartment of George White, a roly-poly former New York cop who had busted him several times but kept in friendly contact with the mobster over the years. Wild Bill Donovan
- This guy up here is a very close relative of the roly-poly, only it lives in the deep sea along the ocean floor.
- Was it Diana who had started with that roly-poly little doughball of hers? Archive 2007-10-01
- This could have been played seriously as in a caper film and worked much better than the roly-poly actor stumbling around trying to pull off the job for comic effect.