golly
Speech parts
1. golly - Noun
2. golly - Verb
3. golly - Interjection
Meaning
golly
(euphemistic) God! [From 1775.]
Abbreviation of golliwog:
A type of black rag doll.
(offensive, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned person.
golly (plural gollies)
(UK) A galosh.
golly (third-person singular simple present gollies, present participle gollying, simple past and past participle gollied)
(Australia, juvenile) To spit; to force up phlegm from one's throat.
(Australian slang, juvenile) Chewing gum.
(Australian slang, juvenile) Saliva or phlegm.
hack up a golly
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Examples
Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.
Golly gee, they deserve a real hand clap, and like on the hand clap, and like meters tracking every cell of the global populations.
It's hard to believe there wasn't one thing to criticize in all his visits there, it comes off reading like a 50s sitcom - "gee, golly, wow, this place is super!"
Golly, we forgot that Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is also running for president, so technically the delay affects him too.
He always said he’d live here someday, and by golly – here we are.
"Long Hair casually underestimated them, and, by golly, they showed him."