/roh"lee poh"lee, -poh'lee/ , adj., n., pl. roly-polies .
adj.
1. short and plumply round, as a person or a young animal.
n.
2. a roly-poly person or thing.
3. Chiefly Brit. a sheet of biscuit dough spread with jam, fruit, or the like, rolled up and steamed or baked.
[ 1595-1605; earlier rowle powle, rowly-powly worthless fellow, game involving rolling balls, rhyming compound based on ROLL (v.); for second element cf. POLL 1 ]
Syn. 1. fat, rotund, pudgy.
Ant. 1. scrawny.