Polack n.
1. a Pole.
Hamlet I i: So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. | ||
Dly Eve. Bulletin (Maysville, KY) 19 Apr. 3/3: Pa sent me up into the Polack’s settlement to see if I could borrow a milk goat. | ||
Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 347: I seen Tim Dorsey’s little woman carryin’ a loaf iv bread an’ a ham to the Polack’s this noon. | in Schaaf||
in Plumbers’ Trade Journal 1 Jan. in Stallman (1966) 122: There he saw a concourse of Slavs, Polacs, Italians and hungarians [...] floundering about in the mud. | ||
Mr Dooley’s Chicago (1977) 218: A Polacker be th’ name iv Kozminski. | in Schaaf||
Houndsditch Day by Day 122: A low pullack collectin’ orferins for the Society in a sardine tin. | ||
Congressional Record 7 Feb. 1625/2: I have some Polacks in my district, and [...] the blood of Pulaski, the brave Pole who fell at Savannah in the defense of American liberty, has never been avenged [DA]. | ||
DN II:iii 145: Pollock, n. A Pole. | ‘College Words and Phrases’ in||
Sun (NY) 12 Oct. 18/2: ‘What?’ says I, putting on the moon-face of a Polack . | ||
Mr. Dooley Says 27: Gr-reat sturdy American pathrites like Mulkowsky th’ Pollacky down the street. | ||
Torchy 147: Before he has time to pipe off the bunch of Polackers that’s come to a parade rest around us, I makes a dive. | ||
Sel. Letters (1981) 2: I wanted to hire the Polacks to pick up but they wanted 5c a bush. | letter 19 Sept. in Baker||
🌐 Got in another nut yesterday, a big burly Pollock. | diary 13 Mar.||
Enormous Room (1928) 88: Get out of the way, you dam Polak! | ||
Main Stem 1: Lunch alone in a bar-room crowded with Polacks who smelled vilely and talked gibberish. | ||
(con. 1920s) Studs Lonigan (1936) 230: The Jews and the Polacks will be stepping all over them. | Young Manhood in||
Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 122: His father was nothing but a drunken Polak. | ||
(con. 1944) Naked and Dead 465: What a dumb Polack his old man had been. | ||
Man with the Golden Arm 51: I want you to meet the best pal a Polak ever had. | ||
Battle Cry (1964) 24: Sure, I’m a dumb Polack. | ||
Naked Lunch (1968) 99: Sulky blond Pollacks with animal brown eyes. | ||
Gun in My Hand 133: The Polacki in the white duffle coat had his arm about her. | ||
Last Exit to Brooklyn 83: She was a bighipped Polack and even her oldman didn’t know she was knockedup. | ||
Friends of Eddie Coyle 41: You can’t talk about the Polack, you can’t talk about the Polack. | ||
Fixx 101: The scheming Polack had worked something out. | ||
Golden Orange (1991) 381: Them Polacks can do something besides go on strike! | ||
Brooklyn Noir 308: If only I hadn’t shot that Polack. | ‘Fade To . . . Brooklyn’ in||
Bad Boy Boogie [ebook] ‘You gonna arrest me, you dumb Polack?’. |
2. (mainly Jewish) a Jew whose family come from Poland.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 16 Jan. 1/6: What won’t a ‘Pullack’ do for good gold. | ||
Your Broadway & Mine 4 Apr. [synd. col.] The Yiderati are claiming Joan Lowell for their ‘Who’s Who’ [...] She’s a Polack. | ||
Tough Guy [ebook]‘ You’re Irish,’ he said to Georgie. ‘You, you’re a Polack,’ he said to Joey. | ||
Faggots 71: A neighbourhood of polacks and schvartzas. |