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Meanings of roly-poly pudding in English

Catalan
braç de gitano
Spanish
brazo de gitano

Pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed.

        braç de gitano
        Usage of roly-poly pudding in English
        1
        Fanny has made the roly-poly pudding,' says he; the chops are my part.
        The Book of Snobs
        2
        There was roast mutton with onion sauce, and a roly-poly pudding.
        The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
        3
        No one ever forgot the roly-poly pudding made without suet; synthetic rubber was its scientific name.
        The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
        4
        Winter is the time for comfort food and there is little that says comfort food better than an aromatic home-baked roly-poly pudding.
        The South African
        5
        A roly-poly pudding is traditionally made with a jam or fruit filling rolled up in a suet dough pastry like a Swiss roll.
        The South African
        6
        In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or the Roly-Poly Pudding, Tom Kitten narrowly escapes becoming the filling for one.
        The Guardian
        7
        The birds soon vanished, and were succeeded by long roly-poly puddings, which the boys called Goliahs; and they, too, rapidly disappeared.
        Eric; Or, Little by Little
        8
        Yesterday I was alone all day, and after riding to the base of Long's Peak, made two roly-poly puddings for supper, having nothing else.
        A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
        9
        "Anna Maria," said the old man rat (whose name was Samuel Whiskers),-"AnnaMaria, make me a kitten dumpling roly-polypudding for my dinner."
        A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
        Translations for roly-poly pudding