paloneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pəˈləʊni/, /pəˈləʊn/
• 韻: -əʊni, -əʊn

名詞

palone (plural palones)

1. (Polari and other slang) A young woman; a girl.
   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock:

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

   • 1944, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, volumes 23-4:

     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.

   • 1967, Kenneth Horne, Bona Bijou Tourettes (Round the Horne), season 3, episode 12:

     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.

派生語

• omi-palone, palone-omi

関連する語

• eau de Cologne (Cockney rhyming slang)

アナグラム

• Paleno, epalon, polane, pœnal