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golliwog
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 of Slang and Unconventional English'', 8th edition, reprinted 1991, . (From 1920.) 4 A receiver of stolen goods. (From ca 1930.) 5 (rfc-sense) ''(Rhyming slang as "the" golliwogs):'' greyhound racing n. 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 of Slang and Unconventional English'', 8th edition, reprinted 1991, . (From 1920.) 4 A receiver of stolen goods. (From ca 1930.) 5 (rfc-sense) ''(Rhyming slang as "the" golliwogs):'' greyhound racing
WordNet
n. a grotesque black doll [syn: golliwogg]
Wikipedia
"Golliwog" ("Gulleplutt") was one of the first attempts by Agnetha Fältskog to enter the charts outside Sweden. The eight German-language music singles she released didn't enter the charts. But with Golliwog the intention was that not only Germany but all of Europe would get to know Agnetha.
In addition, "Golliwog" was recorded in English as the B side of the single called Here For Your Love ("Tio Mil Kvar Till Korpilombolo"), at the marketing suggestion of Agnetha's record company, CBS Cupol. Agnetha had been against releasing English songs, and also lyricist Bosse Carlgren was not too keen on his English lyrics.
The "Golliwog" single was not successful in either Sweden or Europe, even though Agnetha was already known as a part of ABBA. In fact the German release stated "Agnetha von ABBA" to increase the sales, but this didn't help the single.
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 as a children's toy called the "golliwog", and had great popularity in Europe and Australia into the 1970s. The doll is characterised by black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips and frizzy hair. Though home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male. For this reason, in the period following World War II, the golliwog was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy.
The image of the doll has become the subject of controversy. While some see the golliwog as a cherished cultural artefact and childhood tradition, others argue that the golliwog is a destructive instance of racism against people of African descent, along with pickaninnies, minstrels, mammy figures, and other caricatures, and it has been described as "the least known of the major anti-Black caricatures in the United States". In recent years, changing political attitudes with regard to race have reduced the popularity and sales of golliwogs as toys. Manufacturers who have used golliwogs as a motif have either withdrawn them as an icon, or changed the name. In particular, the association of the golliwog with the pejorative term " wog" has resulted in use of alternative names such as "golly" and "golly doll".
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.