Definition of Gollies

1. Noun. (plural of golly) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gollies

1. golly [n] - See also: golly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gollies

golimumab
goll
gollan
golland
gollands
gollans
gollar
gollared
gollaring
gollars
goller
gollered
gollering
gollers
gollied
gollies (current term)
golliwog
golliwogg
golliwoggs
golliwogs
gollop
golloped
golloping
gollops
gollumish
golly
gollying
gollywog
gollywogs
goloe-shoe

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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