In dictionaries:
roly-poly pudding
pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
Roly-poly toy
A roly-poly toy, roly-poly doll, round-bottomed doll, tilting doll, tumbler, wobbly man, wobble doll, or kelly is a round-bottomed toy, usually egg-shaped, that tends to right itself when pushed at an angle, and does this in seeming contradiction to how it should fall.
Jam roly-poly
Jam roly-poly, shirt-sleeve pudding, dead man's arm or dead man's leg is a traditional British pudding probably first created in the early 19th century.
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