A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel.
Lyons was ideal material for the ‘Honest Joe’ image. He had a round chubby face under a mop of curly hair that made him resemble a cross between a koala bear and a golliwog.
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(dated, racist, offensive) A black person.
A golliwog doll, ‘Rickety Kate’, was fixed to the studio wall.
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(Australia) A hairy caterpillar.
Deemed equally ‘harmless’ by its perpetrators is that close relation to the cannibal; the golliwog.Dixon′s brilliant essay ‘All things white and beautiful’ (1976) argues that golliwogs are associated with fear and darkness, quoting an En…
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