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Pallone vs Palone - What's the difference?

pallone | palone |

As nouns the difference between pallone and palone

is that pallone is a traditional italian game played with a large leather ball while palone is a young woman, a girl.

pallone

English

Noun

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  • A traditional Italian game played with a large leather ball.
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    palone

    English

    Alternative forms

    *polony

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 , volume 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 .