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My sources don't have much to contribute to "Palooka." All Webster's unabridged says about its origin is "?". Slang and Euphemism Dictionary, Richard Spears, says:
palooka (also paluka) an oaf; an unskilled prizefighter, the name of a comic-strip prizefighter, "Joe Palooka." [U.S. slang, 1900s]
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say, "tisk, tisk" on several occasions when feigning sympathy
I think that Geoff has hit upon something here. If said with an attempt at pronouncing it as written there is an element of sarcasm involved. The description of it as an unvoiced labio-dental implosive would be more indicative of the normal use pronunciation. It could probably also be described as a click by someone familiar with the languages that use such things.
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Faldeye, are you thinking there might be two different pronunciations, one when there's "an element of sarcasm involved," and the other as "the normal use pronunciation". Very interesting idea.
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two different pronunciations
Yup.
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I'm Western, then--I hate country! 
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