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palone, polone slang.|pəˈləʊn|
Also polony |pəˈləʊnɪ|, pollone.
[Etym. uncertain; conceivably a phonet. var. of blowen.]
A derogatory term for a young woman; also, an effeminate man.
1934P. Allingham Cheapjack xvi. 202 I'd rather 'andle a man any day than a lot of these silly palones. Ibid. 203 Charlie was not a lady's man, and by ‘palones’ he meant girls. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 646/2 Polone,..a girl or woman. 1938H. W. Wicks Prisoner Speaks vi. 95 The jogars and griddlers..had a language of their own, such as: omie, meaning man, pollone—woman, feelia—boy,..and so on. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock i. ii. 30 ‘What about that polony he was with?’ ‘She doesn't matter,’ the Boy said. ‘She's just a buer.’ Ibid. ii. ii. 88 ‘Napoleon the Third used to have this room,’ Mr. Colleoni said, ‘and Eugenie.’ ‘Who was she?’ ‘Oh,’ Mr. Colleoni said vaguely, ‘one of those foreign polonies.’ 1947Penguin New Writing XXIX. 99 The authentic flavour of life among the small-time spivs, of caffs and gaffs, grafter and palone. 1969J. Gardner Complete State of Death v. 66 There was another possibility. Hart could be a palone. Fanny Hart. No. 1979R. Rendell Make Death love Me iv. 37 ‘When the polone comes to lock up, Groombridge'll be due to split.’.. ‘Call her a girl, can't you? You're not a poove.’ |