palone

plural palones · alternative polony

1. Polari and other slangA 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

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   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