▪ I. poˈlony2
Also 8 pullony.
[Origin uncertain: perh. the same as prec.; perh. corruption of Bologna, q.v.]
In Polony sausage, a sausage made of partly cooked pork.
| 1764 E. Moxon Eng. Housew. (ed. 9) 75 To make Pullony Sausages. a 1845 Hood Sausage Maker's Ghost ii, Preferr'd to all polonies, saveloys, And other foreign toys. 1878 Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore 1, I've chickens and conies, and pretty polonies, And excellent peppermint drops. |
▪ II. polony
var. palone.