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Etymology edit

Uncertain; possibly from Italian paglione, by analogy with palliasse and so with hay bag.

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Noun edit

palone (plural palones)

  1. (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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Lower Sorbian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpalɔnɛ/, [ˈpalɔnə]

Participle edit

palone

  1. inflection of palony:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

Polish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /paˈlɔ.nɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔnɛ
  • Syllabification: pa‧lo‧ne

Participle edit

palone

  1. inflection of palony:
    1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
    2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Further reading edit

  • palone in Polish dictionaries at PWN