Bingo Boys and Poodle Fakers

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Bingo Boys and Poodle Fakers
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Bingo Boys and Poodle Fakers

Edition year 2007
Binding Paper
Illustrator Clare Mackie
Weight 0.5 Kg
Pages 117
Dimensions 20 × 13.5 cm

Edition details

Bingo Boys and Poodle Fakers, A Curious Compendium of Historical Slang Collected from the best authorities. Decorations by Clare Mackie. Bound in illustrated plasticised paper. 117pp.

About the book

Bingo Boys and Poodle Fakers explores the inventive and often irreverent language of historical slang. Unfamiliar expressions for people, occupations, behaviour and everyday situations reveal social worlds that formal dictionaries do not always capture. The collection's pleasure lies in discovering how earlier speakers mocked pretension, disguised meaning or found a memorable name for a familiar habit. Read as a reference miscellany or dipped into for amusement, it offers glimpses of changing manners and attitudes through the words people used beyond the conventions of respectable speech.

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