Pokadope: nonce or regional slang?

[neil]

on 1/4/06 9:16 PM, Wilson Gray at hwgray at GMAIL.COM wrote:

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> 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
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> 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.
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> -Wilson Gray

Both 'white' speakers. But -- hey -- it's just a novel. Artistic licence
[license] maybe.

--Neil
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> neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK> wrote:
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>> Subject: Pokadope: nonce or regional slang?
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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 se=
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>> 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, 206=AD207]
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>> Neil Crawford
>> neil at typog.co.uk
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