polony

British  

/ pəˈləʊnɪ /

noun

1. another name for bologna sausage

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Etymology

Origin of polony

C16: perhaps from _Bologna

Example Sentences

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 Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)

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 Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

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 Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred

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 Thackeray, William Makepeace

A polony was originally a Bolonian sausage, from Bologna.

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