Bingo Boys and Poodle Fakers

This short anthology is a compendium of historical English slang, gathered from older dictionaries and canting lists and arranged for browsing rather than as a continuous text. Entries gloss forgotten or specialised words for drink, crime, fashion, sex, money, and social types - the bingo boy, the poodle-faker, and their neighbours in street and drawing-room talk. The book treats slang as a record of past fads and occupations, including the social slang of the early twentieth century. It is a glossary with brief explanations, not a novel, a memoir, or a systematic linguistic history.

Bound in plasticised paper with a colour illustration on cover. Blue endleaves printed with an alphabetic illustration. No slipcase.