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Definition of Gollywog
1. golliwog [n -S] - See also: golliwog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gollywog
Literary usage of Gollywog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wounded and a Prisoner of War by Malcolm Vivian Hay (1917)
"This expression of contempt for the youth of the Pup was always the last word of
the gollywog, who would strut up and down the room shouting, ..."
2. The Bookman (1899)
"The picture books are not of a very high grade of art; they are principally of
the "gollywog" and "Ugly Beasts" description, but they sell, and that is the ..."
3. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"... then, roused by our noisy mirth, scores of black heads, with 'gollywog' eyes,
suddenly protruded from the snow —to see what all the fuss was about. ..."
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