polony

See also: Polony

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈloʊni/

Etymology 1

A corruption of bologna.

Noun

polony (plural polonies)

1. A kind of sausage made of meat that has been only partly cooked.
   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor's door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.

   • 1873, Julia Kavanagh, Rachel Gray: A Tale Founded on Fact‎^[1], page 42:

     There was a touch of quiet humour in Rachel, and with a demure smile, she internally wondered why it was precisely her polony that had been selected by puss, but aloud she merely declared that she could make an excellent supper on bread and beer.

   • 1978, Journal of the South African Veterinary Association, page 115:

     A survey of 25 polony samples of different brands available to the consumer in Bloemfontein showed that significant numbers of various micro-organisms were present.

   • 1984, Jewish Affairs, volume 39, number 4, page 35:

     Shlomo threw the polony and bread ceremoniously into the lorry and heaved himself up to see who it was who recognised him.

Etymology 2

Variant form of Polari palone.

Noun

polony (plural polonies)

1. Alternative form of palone
   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock‎^[2], London: Heinemann (1947), page 28:

     “What about that polony he was with?” ¶ “She doesn't matter”, the Boy said, “She's just a buer—he gave her a half. I saw him hand it out.”

   • 1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock‎^[3], London: Heinemann (1947), page 57:

     “I don't need a razor with a polony. If you don't know what it is, it's a bottle.”

Etymology 3

Blend of polymerase +‎ colony

Noun

polony

1. (biotechnology) A cluster of polymers produced by clonal amplification of DNA.
   • 2008, Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences, India, page 97:

     Fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) or beadbased polony sequencing FISSEQ involves localized amplification of single DNA molecules, using an acrylarnide gel, thus creating colonies of PCR product that are called polonies.

   • 2008, Michal Janitz, Next-Generation Genome Sequencing: Towards Personalized Medicine‎^[4], page 58:

     The development of polony technology is an extreme example of spatial compression; a polony array essentially consists of millions of distinguishable, immobilized, and femtoliter-scale "test tubes" filled with clonal DNA arising from individual DNA or RNA molecules via a single polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

   • 2008, John Mendelsohn, The Molecular Basis of Cancer‎^[5]:

     This cycle is repeated several dozen times to generate DNA sequence information for each polony.

Further reading

• Polony sequencing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “polony”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.