Pokadope: nonce or regional slang?

[Wilson Gray]

On 1/4/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I have never heard of this.
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>   JL



I'm a native of East Texas and I've never heard of it, either. Are the
speakers black or white? If they're white, that fact alone, unfortunately,
would easily explain why I've never heard of it, leaving us no wiser than we
were with Jon's reply.

-Wilson Gray

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
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> forthcoming 'P' tell me if 'pokadope' (presumably a reference to a female
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> sex object) is nonce or whether you have other citations. The novel is set
> in east Texas in the 1930s:
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> "What do you think of that ass?"
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> Rooster felt himself turning red. All he could say was, "It's nice."
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> "McBride laughed. "Nice. That's some first-rate pokadope."
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> --Joe R. Lansdale, 'Sunset and Sawdust', Alfred A. Knopf
> [Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2004, 206­207]
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> Neil Crawford
> neil at typog.co.uk
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