🇬🇧 en fi 🇫🇮

roly-poly noun

  /ˈɹoʊliˈpoʊli/ , /ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/
  • A toy that rights itself when pushed over.
 keikkunukke
  • (games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.
 kierimisleikki
  • (uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.
 kierimisleikki, kierimispeli
  • (gymnastics) A forward roll or sideways roll.
 kierähdys
  • (Britain, also, attributively) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.
 kääritty hillotäytteinen ihrasta tehty kohokas
  • (games) A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to knock down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.
 palloleikki
  • (Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).
 pallosiira
  • (informal) A short, plump person (especially a child).
 pullukka

roly-poly adjective

  /ˈɹoʊliˈpoʊli/ , /ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/
  • Moving with a rolling and swaying motion.
 kierivä ja heiluva

roly-poly adverb

  /ˈɹoʊliˈpoʊli/ , /ˌɹəʊlɪˈpəʊli/
  • By rolling, so as to roll.
 kierien
Wiktionary Links