palone
UK/pəˈləʊni/
palone noun: a young woman; a girl.
Noun
palone (plural palones)
- 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
Forms of palone
| plural | palones |
|---|---|
| alternative form | polony |
Origin of palone
Uncertain; possibly from Italian paglione, by analogy with palliasse and so with hay bag.
Words formed from palone
Words that rhyme with palone
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Questions about palone
- What does palone mean?
- Palone means a young woman; a girl.
- What part of speech is palone?
- Palone is a noun.
- How do you pronounce palone?
- Palone is pronounced /pəˈləʊni/ (UK).
- What is the plural of palone?
- The plural of palone is palones.
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