palone

English

Alternative forms

• polony

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈləʊni/, /pəˈləʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊni, -əʊn

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• omi-palone, palone-omi

Related terms

• eau de Cologne (Cockney rhyming slang)

Anagrams

• Paleno, epalon, polane, pœnal

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpalɔnɛ/, [ˈpalɔnə]

Participle

palone

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

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Participle

palone

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

Further reading

• palone in Polish dictionaries at PWN