Dictionary

palone en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pəˈləʊn/ (UK)
• /pəˈləʊni/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (qualifier:Polari and other slang) A young woman; a girl.
   • ‘I don't need a razor with a polony. If you want to know what it is, it's a bottle.’ 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock:
   • 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. 1944, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, volumes 23-4:
   • 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. 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:

Forms

Deriveds

palone-omi · omi-palone

Relateds

eau de Cologne