roly-poly
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roly-poly englanniksi
(senseid) A toy that rights itself when over|pushed over.
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(quote-book)|year=2012|page=108|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlUXu8L2ogQC&pg=PA108|isbn=978-1-60705-550-1|passage=Though most often made of plastic, roly-poly tumble toys were commonly found in mid-century toy boxes.
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(quote-book)|edition=5th|location=Chicago, Ill.|publisher=C. McClurg|Jansen, McClurg & Company|year=1880|year_published=1883|page=80|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/musicstudyingerm1883faya/page/80/mode/1up|oclc=3576095|passage=The Germans have a great idea that you must "''stärken'' (strengthen)" yourself. So they eat every few hours. (..) The German women are plump roly-polies, as a general rule, and it is probably in consequence of this continual "strengthening."
(quote-journal)?&93;|title=Jamaica Church Ladies’ Association in England|magazine=The Net Cast in Many Waters: Sketches from the Life of Missionaries, for 1893|location=London; Derby, Derbyshire|publisher=Howe Bemrose|Bemrose & Sons(nb...)|date=1 December 1893|volume=28|issue=1|page=190|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJ8_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA190|oclc=896748278|passage=In a few weeks 'our baby' was a regular roly-poly, fat and frolicsome. Has she forgotten all the neglect? God grant it.
(quote-book) A ‘roly poly’ roll or a tucked sideways roll will give the children just as much pleasure and also enough exercise and knowlege of turning and rolling at this stage of their development.
(senseid) (synonym of); specifically, the thistle|prickly Russian thistle ((taxlink) or (taxlink)).
(senseid) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.
(RQ:Thackeray Snobs) has made the roly-poly pudding," says he; "the chops are my part. Here's a fine one; try this, (smallcaps)." (..) &91;page 137&93; The three mutton-chops consumed by him were best of the mutton kind; the potatoes were perfect of their order; as for the roly-poly, it was too good.
(RQ:Worboise Cyril Denham) Dinner began and proceeded till the last piece of the roly-poly pudding was consumed, though not by Cyril; (..)
(quote-journal)|date=26 March 1873|volume=XII|page=233|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=zSAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA233|column=1|oclc=228689275|passage=This is, indeed, an awful meal, and we have as yet only reached the joint, and there is a detestable, indigestible, unswallowable jam roly-poly to follow.
(senseid) ''In full'' roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder (taxfmt), especially a bug (family (taxfmt)) or a sowbug (family (taxlink))) or a millipede (superorder (taxlink)).
(RQ:Harper Lee Mockingbird) The creatures are no more than an inch long, and when you touch them they roll themselves into a tight gray ball.
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(senseid) A mischievous or worthless person; a scoundrel, a rascal.
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(RQ:Jonson Tale of a Tub)
(RQ:Arbuthnot Law)
A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.
(RQ:Clare Village Minstrel)
A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.
(quote-book)|edition=new|location=London|publisher=(...) (w),(nb...)|year=1841|section=book III (Pastimes usually Exercised in Towns and Cities, or Places Adjoining to Them), section XII (Half-bowl)|page=274|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sportsandpastim02honegoog/page/274/mode/1up|oclc=5782691|passage=This is one of the games prohibited by IV of England|Edward IV.; and received its denomination from being played with one half of a sphere of wood. Half-bowl is practised to this day in Hertfordshire, where it is commonly called rolly-polly; and it is best performed upon the floor of a room, especially if it be smooth and level. There are fifteen small pins of a conical form required for this pastime; (..) the bowl, when delivered, must pass above the pins, and round the end-pin, without the circle, before it beats any of them down; if not, the cast is forfeited: (..)
(quote-book) The Roller tries to roll the ball into one of the holes. If he makes three consecutive misses, a pebble is placed in his hole. (..) Roly Poly is a very old English game. It is sometimes played in England with hats instead of holes, and it is then often called Egg Hat. In this case the ball is pitched instead of rolled.
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(quote-book)|trans-title=In the Year of the Reign of II of Great Britain|George II. King of Great Britain, France, & Ireland, the Eighteenth ...|location=London|publisher=(...) Thomas Baskett, printer to the King’s Most Excellent Majesty; and by the assigns of Robert Baskett|year=1744|year_published=1745|section=2|page=712|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pBc2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA712|oclc=863248516|passage=And be it further enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That if any Perſon or Perſons whatſoever ſhall, after the ſaid Twenty fourth Day of June, One thouſand ſeven hundred and forty five, play at the ſaid Game of Roulet, otherwiſe Roly-poly, or at any Game of Chance with Cards or Dice, already prohibited by Law, every ſuch Perſon or Perſons ſo offending, ſhall alſo incur the Pains and Penalties, and be liable to ſuch Proſecution, as is directed in and by an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His preſent Majeſty, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing exceſſive and deceitful Gaming.
(quote-book) "A rolling-pin?" said Ribby. "Did we not hear a roly-poly noise in the attic when we were looking into that chest?" Ribby and Tabitha rushed upstairs again. Sure enough the roly-poly noise was still going on quite distinctly under the attic floor.
(RQ:O'Meara Woman's Trials)
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By rolling, so as to roll.
Without hesitating; directly; hence, in a thoughtless manner; indiscriminately.
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