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poppy-show dial. and Sc.
Also puppie-show.
[f. poppy, puppy, dial. varr. of puppet n.: cf. puppy n. 4 b.]
A puppet-show; a peep-show. Also transf. and fig.
1798D. Crawford Poems 88 You'd mak a noble poppey-show. 1828D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch vii. 64 They..let me in with a grudge for twopence..to see a punch and puppie-show business. 1886J. P. Reid Facts & Fancies 43 It was there we used to gather floo'ers to mak' a poppy-show. 1887T. Darlington Folk-Speech S. Cheshire 298 A pin to see a poppy-show. 1917N. Douglas South Wind xl. 459 When you watch some of these local marionette theatres the illusion is complete. Why is a poppy show more convincing than the Comédie Française? 1924D. H. Lawrence Let. Aug. (1962) II. 803 In the next window-hole, a poppy-show of Indian women in coloured shawls. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 650/1 Poppy-show, a display, esp. if accidental, of underclothes. 1950L. Bennett et al. Anancy Stories & Dial. Verse ii. 45 All de ballerina head dem, tie Wid ballerina bow, Ballerina glamour mix wid Ballerina pappy-show! |