Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of high-dried sausage made of partly cooked pork.

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  • noun A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.

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  • noun Alternative form of palone.
  • noun Scotland the polonaise.
  • adjective obsolete Poland.
  • noun A kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked.

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  • noun another name for Bologna sausage

Etymologies

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Variant forms.

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Shortening of polonaise.

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From obsolete English Polony ("Poland"), from Latin Polonia

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A corruption of Bologna, possibly influenced by polony.

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Examples

  • In 1994, he helped a Boston biotech complete the first bacterial genome sequence.36 Later, his team developed one of the first next-generation sequencing methods, called polony sequencing.37 Elements of this technology were incorporated into the technologies developed by ABI and Complete Genomics, while the Church lab helped build a low-cost open-source sequencing instrument called the Polonator.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • The children themselves, who came along for a snack of polony a bright pink, toxic-looking lunch meat that they all seemed to love and cheese, had the unnatural quietness of kids who had spent too much of their lives sick and in pain.

    No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

  • Armed with a cooler full of bread, Coke, cheese, and polony, we found a free spot and spread out our towels and blankets in the soft sand.

    No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

  • With a taste of roly polony from Blugpuddels after.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The abattoir is expected to produce salami, polony, ribs and tinned baboon meat for markets in central Africa and eastern

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Altogether 46 cases of theft in the parliamentary complex - including a polony slicer and dictionary - were reported between

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • 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.

    The Dawn of A To-morrow 1905

  • 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.

    The Dawn of a To-morrow Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • 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.

    English Satires Various 1885

  • As a rule, he stowed everything away under his shirt; and at night when he reached his bedroom he drew from his bosom hunks of polony, slices of _pate de foie gras_, and bundles of pork rind.

    The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

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  • Over the last few years, much of his lab's attention has been on polymerase colonies, or "polonies," a method that uses enzymes to amplify billions of short DNA fragments and stitch those together into a form that can be sequenced. Polony technology has since been licensed to several companies. . . . Church has teamed up with an engineering firm to make and sell a polony sequencer ("the Polonator") . . . .
    Misha Angrist, Here is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), ch. 2 (Kindle loc. 334)

    December 17, 2016