A fork of Rural Dictionary
"Holy god" equals "God holy", and the contraction god + holy produces "golly". That's it: "golly" is a contraction of those two words. Hence, it literally means "Holy god".
(doing mountain climbing for the very first time) Golly, I'm scared! (watching puppies playing) Golly, this is too cute to watch!
The substance made of many green and yellow mucus related juices which form a semi solid booger looking object. It may fly out or either the nose or mouth particularly into cereals at any given time.
Lachlan : (eating Nutri grain) Leb: (coughs) Oh yuck Lachlan a GOLLY just flew into your cereal. Lachlan : I’m not eating this anymore.
An expression of surprise, delight or shock used predominantly by landed gentry or complete nerds
"Golly I hope the weather is lovely for the steeplechase on Saturday"
The sticky stuff that you bring up when you have to spit. Verb
Man, i gotta gollie, hang on, *spits*