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"ref": "1950 November 27, “American-made Toys … for American Girls and Boys [advertisement]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Life, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 79",
"text": "BOBO The Roly Poly Clown / Punch him—beat him—tackle him—Bobo will bounce right back with a smile!",
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"ref": "1972, Arden J. Newsome, “Japanese”, in Crafts and Toys from around the World, New York, N.Y.: Julian Messner, page 67",
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"ref": "1880, Amy Fay, “The War. German Meals. Women and Men. Tausig’s Teaching. Tausig Abandons His Conservatory. Dresden. Kullak.”, in Music-study in Germany. […], 5th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Jansen, McClurg & Company, published 1883, →OCLC, page 80",
"text": "The Germans have a great idea that you must \"stärken (strengthen)\" yourself. So they eat every few hours. […] The German women are plump roly-polies, as a general rule, and it is probably in consequence of this continual \"strengthening.\"",
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"ref": "1893 December 1, Bishop of Jamaica [Enos Nuttall?], “Jamaica Church Ladies’ Association in England”, in The Net Cast in Many Waters: Sketches from the Life of Missionaries, for 1893, volume 28, number 1, London, Derby, Derbyshire: Bemrose & Sons […], →OCLC, page 190",
"text": "In a few weeks 'our baby' was a regular roly-poly, fat and frolicsome. Has she forgotten all the neglect? God grant it.",
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"ref": "1997, Clark M. Williamson, Ronald J[ames] Allen, “Worship as the Power of God”, in Adventures of the Spirit: A Guide to Worship from the Perspective of Process Theology, Lanham, Md., Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press of America, page 76",
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"text": "This is one of the games prohibited by Edward IV.; and received its denomination from being played with one half of a sphere of wood. Half-bowl is practised to this day in Hertfordshire, where it is commonly called rolly-polly; and it is best performed upon the floor of a room, especially if it be smooth and level. There are fifteen small pins of a conical form required for this pastime; […] the bowl, when delivered, must pass above the pins, and round the end-pin, without the circle, before it beats any of them down; if not, the cast is forfeited: […]",
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"text": "And be it further enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That if any Perſon or Perſons whatſoever ſhall, after the ſaid Twenty fourth Day of June, One thouſand ſeven hundred and forty five, play at the ſaid Game of Roulet, otherwiſe Roly-poly, or at any Game of Chance with Cards or Dice, already prohibited by Law, every ſuch Perſon or Perſons ſo offending, ſhall alſo incur the Pains and Penalties, and be liable to ſuch Proſecution, as is directed in and by an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His preſent Majeſty, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing exceſſive and deceitful Gaming.",
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"code": "rue",
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"masculine"
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"code": "yue",
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"word": "不倒翁"
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"word": "tumling"
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"code": "nl",
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"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"code": "eo",
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"code": "eo",
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"word": "staremulo"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"word": "keikkunukke"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "toy that rights itself when pushed over",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "it",
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "起き上がり小法師"
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{
"code": "ko",
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"roman": "ottugi",
"sense": "toy that rights itself when pushed over",
"word": "오뚝이"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "toy that rights itself when pushed over",
"tags": [
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"word": "wańka-wstańka"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "toy that rights itself when pushed over",
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"code": "pt",
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"tags": [
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"sense": "toy that rights itself when pushed over",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hopa-mitică"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nevaljáška",
"sense": "toy that rights itself when pushed over",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "неваля́шка"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "es",
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "th",
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"sense": "toy that rights itself when pushed over",
"word": "ตุ๊กตาล้มลุก"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "toy that rights itself when pushed over",
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"code": "uk",
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"lang": "Ukrainian",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"code": "de",
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"code": "mk",
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