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English
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Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from Italian paglione, by analogy with palliasse and so with hay bag.
Pronunciation
Noun
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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Pronunciation
Participle
palone
- inflection of palony:
- neuter nominative/accusative singular
- nominative/accusative plural
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈlɔ.nɛ/
- Rhymes: -ɔnɛ
- Syllabification: pa‧lo‧ne
Participle
palone
- inflection of palony:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Further reading
- palone in Polish dictionaries at PWN