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pollie

pollie noun: a politician.

Noun

pollie (plural pollies)

  1. (Australia, informal) A politician.
    • I think politics attracts a particular type of person – and I don′t think I′m one of those. The pollies certainly need to be very dedicated and to be prepared to invest huge amounts of their time.2006, Shane Webcke, Ian Heads, Warhorse, page 99
    • And I blamed media training, which resulted in mantra politics. (‘Ignore the questions,’ the pollies are told. ‘Keep repeating the message.’)2009, Laurie Oakes, Power Plays: The Real Stories of Australian Politics, 2011, Read How You Want, page iii

Proper noun capitalized: Pollie

Pollie

  1. A female given name.

pollie meaning in Bengali

pollie in Bengali

একজন রাজনীতিবিদ

Forms of pollie

pluralpollies

Origin of pollie

From politician + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Less common spelling of Polly.

Words formed from pollie

Questions about pollie

What does pollie mean?
Pollie means a politician.
What is pollie in Bengali?
Pollie in Bengali is একজন রাজনীতিবিদ. See Pollie meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is pollie?
Pollie can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pollie?
The plural of pollie is pollies.

Words near pollie in the dictionary

  1. pollicitations
  2. pollicization
  3. Pollick
  4. Pollicks
  5. pollicy
  6. pollie
  7. pollies
  8. Pollina
  9. pollinar
  10. pollinaria
  11. pollinarium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pollie (page history and authors); Pollie (page history and authors); pollie (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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