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
- _malapropos_; for instance, she called out, to a little fat, stupid, roly-poly girl, to whom Miss Benson was busy explaining the meaning of the word quadruped, Ruth
- The work of the unrecognized dramaturgist who concealed himself under the pseudonym of Roly-Poly. Yama: the pit
- When the door opened a small, roly-poly faced man wearing spectacles walked in smoking a pipe. COVER STORY
- Morros, who made his first public bow at a news conference in Washington on August 12, turned out to be a balding, roly-poly former musician, whose ostensible claim to fame was having composed “The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers.” A Covert Affair
- A short distance behind him a roly-poly faced man limped unsteadily. COVER STORY
- You might think Ana at Pumpkin Pie Bungalow would go with pumpkin pie, but no: she made a Torta de Laranja, an orange-based rolled pudding with the name cutely translated to Orange Roly-Poly. Is My Blog Burning #14: Hot Orange on Orange Action!!
- Despite the copious amounts they can pack away, roly-poly types are less common than lanky or athletic builds, sometimes with the equine features of their symbol.
- Played by two women, their portrayal of the huffy, roly-poly cartoon-like Russians was very amusing.
- Although he was slender and spare with silver wire-rimmed glasses, there was something about him that reminded Sharon of a roly-poly Santa Claus. Western Man
- They will be cooking chicken rogan josh followed by apple and cinnamon roly-poly in the final.
