roly-poly

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With their roly-poly bodies, child-like eyes, long whiskers and tiny padded paws, otters are some of the most charismatic animals in nature.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2024

A Xerces-supported group in Riverside known as the California Bumble Bee Atlas is signing up community scientists to observe California’s 25 species of lovable bumblebees, the roly-poly pandas of the insect world.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2023

They tend to enjoy a three-course meal at night with a starter of minestrone soup, a pasta or rice dish for main and apple crumble or jam roly-poly to finish.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2023

David Byrne applies his quizzical-observer perspective in “The Fat Man’s Comin’,” a brief, brawny and elaborately arranged chamber-pop bolero about “a roly-poly man in the dark, he’s riding.”

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022

This roly-poly guy with an upside-down face was playing his trumpet in it.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell