roly-poly pudding
- noun
- /ˈrəʊliˈpəʊli ˈpʊdɪŋ/
- UK
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pudín roly-poly
- After the main course, everyone was excited to taste the warm roly-poly pudding with custard.
Examples
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She learned how to make a traditional roly-poly pudding for the family gathering.
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For dessert, we enjoyed a delicious roly-poly pudding filled with sweet strawberries.
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Has she ever had roly-poly pudding?
Synonyms
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1.0
A soft savory dish made from grain or vegetables and baked
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7.6
A steamed or boiled pudding made from suet, a hard beef fat, and flour, often sweet
A British pudding made from rich pastry rolled with jam and steamed or baked
A sweet or savory dish cooked by steaming, often made from flour and eggs
A playful old name for a soft sweet dessert like pudding
Surface Forms
Morphology
Knowing 'roly-poly' (round/rolled) and 'pudding' (dessert), a B1 learner can infer this refers to a kind of dessert that is rolled or rounded, so the basic category and shape are predictable from the parts. However, the specific traditional preparation (suet pastry, jam filling, baked/steamed) and fixed cultural name are not fully derivable from the constituents, so some prior exposure is needed for the full meaning.
Etymology
The dessert roly-poly pudding gets its name from how it is made: cooks spread pastry with jam and then roll it up into a log or round shape. That's why the name means this rolled-up, steamed or baked pudding.