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Adjective: roly-poly  `rowlee'powlee
  1. Short and plump
    - dumpy, podgy [Brit], pudgy, tubby
Noun: roly-poly  `rowlee'powlee
  1. A rotund individual
    - fatso, fatty, fat person, butterball [N. Amer]
     
  2. [Brit] Pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
    - roly-poly pudding [Brit]

Derived forms: roly-polies

See also: fat, rolypoliness

Type of: large person, pudding

Encyclopedia: Roly-poly