Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

palone

/pəˈləʊni/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: palone
IPA: /pəˈləʊni/

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A young woman; a girl.

Example Sentences

"‘I don't need a razor with a polony. If you want to know what it is, it's a bottle.’"
"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."
"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: paglione

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /pəˈləʊni/

Inflected Forms

palones (plural) polony (alternative)

Phrases

omi-palone palone-omi eau de Cologne

Frequently Paired Words

eau de Cologne

Homonyms

pallone

Rhymes With

own known phone well-known alone shown stone zone loan grown unknown tone

Questions

How do you pronounce palone?: The recorded pronunciation is /pəˈləʊni/.
What does palone mean?: A young woman; a girl.
Where does palone come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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