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bologna
/bəˈloʊni/
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buh-LOH-nee: finish with nee.
The written gn does not produce a g sound here. Keep the main stress on LOH; the dictionary records other endings as well.
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“He added a slice of bologna to the sandwich.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does bologna mean?
noun
- A seasoned Italian sausage made from beef, pork or veal.
- Synonym of baloney (“nonsense”).
proper noun
- A province of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
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proper noun
- The capital city of Emilia-Romagna, Italy, the capital of Bologna and also of Emilia-Romagna.
- A habitational surname from Italian.
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IPA pronunciation
/bəˈloʊni/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Those who were still older, and could reach the tables, marched about munching contentedly at meat bones and bologna sausages.
So saying, he slammed a sack of gold dust of the size of a bologna sausage down upon the bar.
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Another otherwise self-respecting tree hung itself all over with plump bologna sausages about two feet long and five inches thick.
She had been presented with a quarter of a stale loaf of baker’s bread, and a big piece of ancient bologna.
He deserves, however, no great confidence as a naturalist, notwithstanding his having delivered lectures in Bologna on medicine and other sciences.