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A grotesque black doll
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golliwog
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The golliwog , golliwogg or golly is a black fictional character created by Florence Kate Upton that appears in children's books in the late 19th century usually depicted as a type of rag doll . It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. ▪ Robertson's jams, now owned by Rank Hovis MacDougall, will no longer have a golliwog on their labels. ▪ The only apparent relief from chess were two dolls ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"grotesque blackface doll," 1895, coined by English children's book author and illustrator Florence K. Upton (1873-1922), perhaps from golly + polliwog .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel. 2 (context dated racist offensive English) A black person. 3 (context Australia English) A hairy caterpillar. "'''golliwog'''", entry in '''1984''', Eric Partridge, ''A Dictionary ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a grotesque black doll [syn: golliwogg ]
Usage examples of golliwog.
A veritable litter of scanners, photo-sensitive cells, partly assembled stereo-screens, radio components, wire golliwogs and schematic diagrams marred with doodles lay scattered over tables the size of rooms.
They looked like golliwogs, like white people pretending to be black for the laughs they could get.
His lips were working, and one of the golliwogs put his ear close to them to hear what might be his dying words.
The golliwogs controlled it with ropes and yodeled melodiously for right-of-way.
Long before the earliest rag dolls and golliwogs, human beings had made dolls as portraits of particular children and adults, too.
Jaun (after he had in the first place doffed a hat with a reinforced crown and bowed to all the others in that chorus of praise of goodwill girls on their best beehiviour who all they were girls all rushing sowarmly for the post as buzzy as sie could bie to read his kisshands, kittering all about, rushing and making a tremendous girlsfuss over him pellmale, their jeune premier and his rosyposy smile, mussing his frizzy hair and the golliwog curls of him, all, but that one.
Hogg looked around, seeing John the Spaniard and the three Albanian waiters from the Sweet Thames Run Softly bar downstairs all looking terrible in coarse golliwog toupees that were meant to be a kind of homage, so Hogg understood, to an enviable aspect of youth typified by these blasphemous obscenities -- namely, a riotous and sickening excess of head-hair.