golliwog
noun/ˈɡɒliwɒɡ/
/ˈɡɑːliwɑːɡ/
(British English, informal golly)
(old-fashioned)- a doll (= a model of a person for a child to play with) made of cloth with a black face and short black hair, now considered old-fashioned and offensive because it can be seen as a caricature (= something that represents somebody in a silly, exaggerated way) of a black personWord Originlate 19th cent.: from Golliwogg, the name of a doll character in books by Bertha Upton (died 1912), American writer; perhaps suggested by golly and polliwog.
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