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golly
noun- a black person UK
A shortening of “golliwog”. - — Brian Fairborn, Good Luck, Mister Cain, 1976
- any person of non-white ethnicity; a native of the Indian subcontinent; an Arab; UK
A play on WOG - For the average Tommy [British soldier], black or white, any local, be he Arab, Indian, or Somali, is a “Golly”[.] — The Observer, 11 June 1967
- a gob of phlegm or mucus AUSTRALIA, 1938
Origin unknown. The English Dialect Dictionary records “golls” as “mucus dripping from a child’s nose” as current in East Anglia in the mid-C19, but “golly” is probably an independant formation. - Come to think of it, them oysters looked more like the chef had puked up a dozen king sized green gollies! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 58, 1968
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 40, 1977
- a half-gallon jar of beer NEW ZEALAND
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 57, 1999
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