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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: Pollyanna, main character in the book Pollyanna (1913) by Eleanor Porter

Pollyanna

 noun
     
Pol‧ly‧an‧na [countable usually singular]
someone who is always happy and always thinks something good is going to happen
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