Crossword clues for golly
golly
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
euphemism for God, first recorded 1775, in a source that refers to it as "a sort of jolly kind of oath, or asseveration much in use among our carters, & the lowest people."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. (context euphemistic English) God! (From 1775.) interj. (context euphemistic English) God! (From 1775.) Etymology 2
n. 1 (abbreviation of golliwog dot=: English) 2 # A type of black rag doll. 3 # (context offensive ethnic slur English) Any dark skinned person. Etymology 3
n. (context UK English) A galosh. Etymology 4
n. 1 (context Australian slang juvenile English) Chewing gum. 2 (context Australian slang juvenile English) Saliva or phlegm. vb. (context Australia juvenile English) To spit; to force up phlegm from one's throat.
Wikipedia
Golly may refer to:
Fictional characters:- Golliwogg, a black character in 19th-century children's books
- Golly, a cartoon character in the 2006 live action/animated film Re-Animated
- Golly Mackenzie, a fictional character in the TV series Monarch of the Glen
- Ole Golly, a fictional character in the children's book Harriet the Spy
- Golly (program), open-source software for simulating cellular automata
- Golly! Ghost!, a video game
- Golly Bar, an ice cream snack
- Golly Pond, a body of water in Heaton Park, Greater Manchester, England
- Richard Goleszowski, an English animator
Golly is a tool for the simulation of cellular automata. It is free open-source software written by Andrew Trevorrow and Tomas Rokicki; it runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android, and can be scripted using Perl or Python. It includes a hashlife algorithm that can simulate the behavior of very large sparse patterns in Conway's Game of Life such as Paul Rendell's Life universal Turing machine, and that is fast enough to simulate some patterns for 2 or more time units. It also includes a large library of predefined patterns in Life and other rules.
Usage examples of "golly".
The back door slammed and Ole Golly marched squarely toward them across the yard.
Harriet felt a twinge of guilt because she had seen a lot more than Ole Golly thought she had.
They met Ole Golly waiting for them, tapping her foot, outside the front door.
She looked up at Ole Golly in astonishment, but Ole Golly just stared out the window again.
Then they saw that Ole Golly was heading for a small private house which sat in its own garden behind the apartment house.
She wanted to tell Sport this, but Ole Golly was leading them in, all of them squeezing past that mountain of a stomach because the fat lady stood, rather stupidly, in the doorway.
Ole Golly loomed over Harriet and it was one of those times when Harriet knew she meant it.
Ole Golly wore an arch expression which signified that she was about to quote.
Ole Golly said this steadily and sedately, then leaned back in her chair with a satisfied look at Sport.
Harriet realized with a start that it was the first time she had ever seen Ole Golly look sad.
Almost as though she were thinking the same thing, Ole Golly suddenly shook her head and sat up straight.
Ole Golly said again, but this time got to her feet, walked to her mother, and laid a firm hand on the bouncing shoulder.
Then Ole Golly got them all bundled into their clothes and they were outside on the street again, having waved to a cheerful Mrs.
Ole Golly looked at Harriet in as gentle a way as she could considering the fact that her face looked like it was cut out of oak.
Ole Golly leaned over and gave her a hard little peck on the forehead.