palone
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Uncertain; possibly from Italian paglione, by analogy with palliasse and so with hay bag.
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palone (plural palones)
- (Polari and other slang) A young woman; a girl.
- 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock:
- ‘I don't need a razor with a polony. If you want to know what it is, it's a bottle.’
- 1944, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, volumes 23-4:
- To nomads the road is the ‘drag,’ a man a ‘homey,’ a woman a ‘palone,’ a fair a ‘gaff,’ and a shop a ‘lolly’ (curtailed rhyming slang: lollipop = shop), but English Gypsies still use drom, mush, manushi, weggorus, and budiga.
- 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:
- Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.
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- eau de Cologne (Cockney rhyming slang)
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- palone in Polish dictionaries at PWN