Roly-poly in a sentence as a noun

Being ~5 years old, after tearing down a roly-poly toy to see how it works.

For whatever it's worth--we call woodlice "roly-poly's" in the US. which now sounds silly typing out.

Roly-poly in a sentence as an adjective

Does he look like a roly-poly?In other words, analyze the fat person's walk and the reasons for his walking that way....

I had jam roly-poly in our work cafeteria last week -- but you're right that it does have a tinge of the school dinner about it.

Roly-poly definitions

noun

a rotund individual

See also: fatso fatty butterball

noun

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

adjective

short and plump

See also: dumpy podgy pudgy tubby