polony
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of polony
C16: perhaps from Bologna
Example Sentences
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“You’ll be reading these for days,” said the man, Chris Polony.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021
I stuck by ill luck, enamour'd of Ophelia, Old Polony like a sausage, and exclaim'd, "Rat, rat!"
From Rejected Addresses by Smith, James
It consisted of Polony sausages, sweetmeats, and an egg-pie—a Lancashire dainty, which Rachel the cook occasionally sent up, for she was a native of that county.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
Polony, po-lō′ni, n. a dry sausage made of meat partly cooked.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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