Pokadope: nonce or regional slang?

[Jonathan Lighter]

I have never heard of this.

  JL

neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK> wrote:
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My copy of (R)HDAS end at 'O', so could Jesse or anyone else with access to
forthcoming 'P' tell me if 'pokadope' (presumably a reference to a female as
sex object) is nonce or whether you have other citations. The novel is set
in east Texas in the 1930s:

"What do you think of that ass?"

Rooster felt himself turning red. All he could say was, "It's nice."

"McBride laughed. "Nice. That's some first-rate pokadope."

--Joe R. Lansdale, 'Sunset and Sawdust', Alfred A. Knopf
[Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2004, 206­207]


Neil Crawford
neil at typog.co.uk




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