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Definition of Gollies
1. golly [n] - See also: golly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gollies
Literary usage of Gollies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn (1921)
"By gollies, if he got throwed off, he'd get right on again. He was a dandy fellow."
The encounter with " Ben Butler" brought a new element into Roosevelt's ..."
2. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1921)
"An' now we're broke an' they're goin' to foreclose today. By gollies! Mebbe they've
foreclosed already! GILBERT — No. Not till eight o'clock tonight. ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1885)
"... and by-gollies, a sort of oath ; botch, to do any thing badly; bodily, for
entire; bolt, to swallow whole, and fast; bolt-upright; booby-hutch, ..."
4. Works by James Fenimore Cooper (1892)
"It was one of those irrepressible " nigger gollies" that often escaped from the
fellow involuntarily. " What do you mean by that uproar, ..."
5. History of Central America by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1887)
"Othon, in his Storie of the gollies, speaks of such arrivals, arguing that they
must have drifted in through a north-west passage. ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1889)
"Now, why of course—my gollies, only look here ! " Every one turned sharply round,
for the door, carefully shut by the last man who entered the room, ..."
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