polony

British  

/ pəˈləʊnɪ /

noun

1. another name for bologna sausage

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Etymology

Origin of polony

C16: perhaps from _Bologna

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Example Sentences

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polony

The bill of fare included cold black-pudding, slices of polony, a piece of salt pork, some gherkins, and some goose-fat.

From The Fat and the Thin by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

Here, whilst I left the little girl innocently eating a polony in the front shop, I and Boroughbridge retired with the boy into the back parlour, where Mrs. Boroughbridge was playing cribbage.

From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

I ain't 'ad a bite since yesterday—an' 't wa'n't nothin' but a slice o' polony sossidge I found on a dust-'eap.

From The Dawn of a To-morrow by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn

Here, whilst I left the little girl innocently eating a polony in the front shop, I and Boroughbridge retired with the boy into the back parlor, where Mrs. Boroughbridge was playing cribbage.

From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

A polony was originally a Bolonian sausage, from Bologna.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

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