¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Golliwogs
1. golliwog [n] - See also: golliwog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Golliwogs
Literary usage of Golliwogs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through Egypt in War-time by Martin Shaw Briggs (1918)
"The " Sambos " or " golliwogs," as we nicknamed them, varied in every shade ...
The golliwogs were mostly good swimmers and divers, their dripping black ..."
2. The Lure of Music: Depicting the Human Side of Great Composers, with Stories by Olin Downes, Columbia Graphophone Company (U.S.) (1918)
"From it comes "The golliwogs' Cake-Walk," an amusing takeoff of American "ragtime,"
... "golliwogs' Cake-Walk" From " Children's Comer " Debussy had a finer ..."
3. Toy Dogs and Their Ancestors, Including the History and Mangement of Toy by Wentworth (1911)
"... or animals with heads like a Dutch cheese, or dogs like the deformed "
golliwogs " which have recently been such a favourite present for children. ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"Irving S. Colwell, 99 Genesee St., Auburn, NY Cherries of New York. Peaches of
New York. Henry James Bostonians. golliwogs and Dutch Dolls. ..."
5. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"This last Christmas it had been "perfectly absurd "—an endless iteration of Peter
Pan story books, golliwogs and copies of Alice in Wonderland, ..."
Other Resources:
