dose any one know what is the meaning word called golly wog?

Answer 1

The Golliwog (originally spelled Golliwogg) is the least known of the major anti-Black caricatures in the United States. Golliwogs are grotesque creatures,1 with very dark, often jet black skin, large white-rimmed eyes, red or white clown lips, and wild, frizzy hair.2 Typically, it's a male dressed in a jacket, trousers, bow tie, and stand-up collar in a combination of red, white, blue, and occasionally yellow colors. The golliwog image, popular in England and other European countries, is found on a variety of items, including postcards, jam jars, paperweights, brooches, wallets, perfume bottles, wooden puzzles, sheet music, wall paper, pottery, jewelry, greeting cards, clocks, and dolls. For the past four decades Europeans have debated whether the Golliwog is a lovable icon or a racist symbol.

Answer 2

A golly wog was a toy that was associated with the golly wog symbol that you used to get on jam. It is seen by some as a clown like toy insinuating that those with 'black' skin are 'clowns'. The toy is now known as a golly because wog was used as a racist term which meant 'western oriental gentleman'.

Answer 3

Original (upper class British) saying was "Golly (a) Wog."
This indicated surprise by the person that he/she had seen a Wog - these were quite rare particularly in England in the 1820's.
WOG is an acronym for a Worthless Oriental Gentleman.
Later this came to be synonymous with any (worthless) foreigner in particular blacks in the southern states of the USA.

Actually I ain't got a clue !!

Answer 4

The Golliwogg (later golliwog) is a rag doll-like, children's literary character created by Florence Kate Upton in the late 19th century. The Golliwogg was inspired by a blackface minstrel doll Upton had as a child in America. Historically very popular in Europe, the doll has become the subject of a great deal of controversy — particularly with ever-increasing ethnic diversity of the resident European population — over whether it should be preserved and passed on as a cherished cultural artifact and childhood tradition, or retired as a relic of an earlier time when anti-black racism was as casual as it was blatant.

At least one European company, a leading jam manufacturer in the UK (Robinsons), denied as recently as five years ago that there was any link between Golliwoggs and black people — in this case in a 2001 statement, reported by the BBC, Virginia (Ginny) C Knox, who was a brand director for Robertson's, and is now Chief Operating Officer of the Culinary Brands Division of RHM, told the Herald Newspaper in Scotland in 2001 that the decision to remove the Golly (Golliwogg) symbol from Robertson's jam and marmalade jars was taken after research found that children were not familiar with the character, although it still appealed to the older generations.

She denied the Golliwogg symbol was being "retired" because it was an offensive image. "We sell 45 million jars of jam and marmalade each year and they have pretty much all got Golly on them," said Ms Knox. "We also sell 250,000 Golly badges to collectors and only get 10 letters a year from people who don't like the Golliwogg image".

Answer 5

You are going to get a lot of folk whinging about this being a racist symbol. Pile of crap - it was a dolly that was popular decades ago, yes it was black, but it had white lips and white gloves. A particular brand of jam used it as its logo, and we helped boost its sales as children by asking mum for the golliwog jam. I remember sending away labels and getting a golliwog of my very own - l loved that doll.
And then political correctness reared its ugly head and associated these cloth dolls with black people. No one I knew thought of these dolls as real people, and the insult was not the doll, but some do-gooder making this ernoneous association. No-one gets offended when manufacturers make "white" dolls that pee their pants - is that a racist remark lol? When my daughter was two, Santa brought her a baby doll just like she wanted, with a brown face - she liked the colour cos she thought it was pretty. I dont see them in the shops now; they were brought in cos the marketting men thought that black folk would buy them, and then stopped when again do-gooders said it was racist. I ask you, where is the sense? What colour of dollies do African mums buy their kids - if an African mum who is good at handicrafts makes a cloth doll that is brown or black and has curly hair, is she being a racist? So why are pink and sunburned people (lol) racist for buying the same?

Answer 6

It was the caricature previously described; the jam company let you save tokens and send for various Golly badges. At the time, it wasn't considered racist.

Answer 7

it's a kind of doll, a cuddly toy which was a sort of caricature of a black minstrel. You don't see them now but they used to have red and white striped trousers, a red jacket with gold braid, a white shiet, bow tie, a black head with lots of black wooly hair white eyes and red lips. I had one and loved him to bits when I was tiny. It never crossed my mind it was meant to be anything but what it was. I simply never associated it with people of any colour. it just WAS.

Answer 8

They used to be featured on the marmalade jars black clown I find it offensive to be honest!

Answer 9

no clue...
However, I have heard of a pollywog - if I remember right it's a worm or a tadpole

Answer 10

it means you are chev low class twit