/gol"ee wog'/ , n. ( sometimes cap. )
1. a grotesque black doll.
2. a grotesque person.
Also, golliwog .
[ 1890-95; after the name of a doll in an illustrated series of children's books by Bertha Upton (d. 1912), U.S. writer, and Florence Upton (d. 1922), illustrator ]