What's the difference between golly and rolly?

Golly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Golly; so riled is Abrams that he has committed a Hollywood solecism – you never tell anyone not to come.
  • (2) Helena Bonham Carter, one of the stars of the film, was seen to mouth “Oh golly” as the protesters jumped the barrier as she was walking the red carpet.
  • (3) The vote on Europe might not have been binding, but by golly it was important.
  • (4) As a general spirit, I'd accept the term "rock and roll" – but if we're talking about Good Golly Miss Molly then it couldn't possibly be further from us.
  • (5) It looks like the Starship Enterprise and costs an eye-watering £299, but by golly, it juices them brassicas good.
  • (6) When these books were published, 'jeepers' and 'golly gosh' was modern slang.
  • (7) You know, it wasn't, 'Golly, gee, them Commies are bad.'
  • (8) I remember after that thinking, 'Golly, how can I keep raising the game?'"
  • (9) "By golly, I just hate these unamerican [sic] shoes!"
  • (10) The first is this, the sort of companies that I understand don't sit there saying, 'by golly, we've got to be able to get rid of people, so therefore we mustn't invest because the risks are too high.'
  • (11) The New Vic continued the tradition of staging new work, including Chris Martin's 1988 adaptation of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha and Bob Eaton's musical Good Golly Miss Molly (1989), as well as classic repertory.
  • (12) Ordinarily I'd be elated – I'd been determined to find Hugh the perfect present, and, by golly, I had done it – but instead I felt unhinged, not by the things I had seen so much as by the taxidermist.

Rolly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I wish I'd kept healthier, that I hadn't smoked all those frigging rollies.
  • (2) And now Kris Jenkins will the Jim Valvano or Rollie Massimino of his time – the face of elation as the great victory is cinched, played on endless repeat for Final Fours to come.
  • (3) Villanova-Georgetown was the last college basketball game ever played without a shot clock, a wrinkle Rollie Massimino used to masterful effect.
  • (4) – but some deeply empowered women, always ready to fight their corner for equal pay, have got a bit eye-rolly, as if I am doing something irrelevant, just to make a cheap point.
  • (5) Villanova, champions in 1985, had their coach from that triumph, 81-year-old Rollie Massimino, in the audience.
  • (6) This adds to the title Villanova won in 1985, when Rollie Massimino, who was on hand Monday night, coaxed a miracle out of his eighth-seeded underdogs for a victory over star-studded Georgetown.

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