pocketbookn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɒkɪtbʊk/, U.S.

/ˈpɑkətˌbʊk/

Forms: see pocket n. and book n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pocket n., book n.

Etymology: < pocket n. + book n.

A. n.

a. Chiefly in form pocket book. A small book, adapted so as to be conveniently carried in a person's pocket. In later use chiefly North American: a paperback or other small or inexpensive edition of a book.Use of the word to denote a printed book does not seem to have been common before the 20th cent. The North American use dates from 1939, when ten titles were published in the U.S. in inexpensive paperback editions by Pocket Books, Inc., a company founded by Robert F. de Graff (1895–1981), subsequently an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

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society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > small book

libel1382

livreta1450

pamphlet1496

pocketbook1617

bookling1782

bookie1787

tomelet1839

volumette1857

booklet1859

society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [noun] > with specific type of back or cover

blue book1633

green book1798

paperback1843

paper cover1843

yellowback1859

flat-back1888

greenback1893

paperbound1933

softback1951

hardback1953

hardcover1953

pocketbook1953

softcover1953

trade paperback1960

1617 Janua Linguarum Advt. To render the volume as portable..and if not as a manuall or pocket-booke, yet a pectorall or bosome-booke, to be carried twixt ierkin and doublet.

1648 A. Rowley (title) The scholler's companion, or a little library, containing all the interpretations of the Hebrew and Greek Bible,..brought into a pocket book.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. Introd. 45 A small Enchiridium and pocket book, easily to be carried about one.

1678 Aubrey in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 129 A little pocket-book, which may be of use where the larger tables cannot be had.

1705 Pastry-cook's Vade-mecum Pref. sig. A2^v In this Pocket-Book, all sorts of People..may find sure Remedies for their Diseases.

1783 S. Johnson Let. 23 Apr. (1994) IV. 132 I am..returning thanks for the elegant pocket book..which I shall look and think on with emotions of tenderness.

1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 318/2 La Rochefoucauld ranks among the scanty number of pocket-books to be read and re-read with ever new admiration, instruction, and delight.

1939 Zanesville (Ohio) Sunday Times-Signal 17 Sept. i. 10/1 (advt.) Just arrived! New titles in the famous Pocket Books... Drop in today and see why Pocket books are being welcomed so enthusiastically by thousands of people like yourself.

1953 Amer. Scholar 23 10 The Galaxy serial ‘Gravy Planet’ (recently republished in a pocket book as The Space Merchants).

1962 A. Buchwald How Much is that in Dollars? 167 Always try to get a large advance on pocket-books.

2007 D. Graham in R. Sutherland & C. Thomson Pocketbk. Radiographic Positioning (ed. 3) Foreword p. ix A pocketbook has a number of advantages over a large textbook..: a pocketbook usually contains succinct information which is readily available to the reader.

b. British. A book for memoranda, notes, etc., intended to be carried in a pocket; a notebook.

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society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [noun]

book of commonplaces1562

adversaria1571

commonplace book1572

stem-book1592

commonplace1607

album1612

commonplacera1631

topic folio1644

place-booka1659

pocketbook1660

blank book1713

scrap-book1825

guard book1839

press book1897

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > notebook

bookOE

notebook1565

tablebook1582

manuscript book1593

notary1651

pocketbook1660

tablets1773

jotter1882

pencil tablet1882

ring book1891

carnet1897

telephone pad1900

notepad1922

copy1943

1660 C. Hoole New Discov. Old Art of teaching Schoole iii. i. 139 Let them cull out the most significant words..and write them in a Pocket-book.

1687 T. Brown Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. (1704) 222 Children don't use to come into the World with their Ink-horns and Pocket-books about them.

1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière School for Wives i. vi, in Molière Wks. III. 137 Here's some new waggish Story to minute down in my Pocket-Book.

1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. II. lvii. 325 A lady..makes a memorandum..in her pocket-book.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xlii. 416 Mr. Squeers took out his pocket-book and made a note of it.

1885 Dict. National Biogr. at Brokesby, Francis From about this time onwards he used to write in his pocket-books short Latin memoranda on the incidents of his daily life.

1932 W. T. Whitley Gilbert Stuart iv. 46 All his distinguished or fashionable sitters were out of town, as can be seen by the entries in his pocket book for 1784.

1996 Independent 19 Nov. ii. 7/2 A total of 124 warnings were handed out; 124 separate sets of names and addresses were duly logged in pocket-books.

a. A pocket-sized folding case for holding banknotes, papers, etc.; a wallet. Now chiefly U.S.In early use not always distinguishable from sense A. 1b.

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society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > wallet > [noun]

pocketbook1670

reader1718

dummy1785

wallet1843

insider1846

porte-monnaie1850

skin1856

bill-holder1890

bill-book1895

billfold1895

poke1908

billfolder1909

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) 399 A pistol in a pocket booke here, is as bad as the others, which being charged and let off, would presently read your doome.

1681 Protestant (Domestick) Intelligence 22 Mar. A Pocket-Book bound in Velom, ty'd about with a piece of Red Tape, was lost on Wednesday night last..with Receipts for several Sums of Money.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 153 A Merchant's Pocket-Book, or Letter-Case.

1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals II. 38 A Lady whose Husband..had sent for her Over-Draughts for her Assistance to the amount of between fifteen Hundred and two Thousand Pounds, lost the Pocket-book in which they were contained.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Knuckles, pickpockets who attend the avenues to public places, to steal pocket books, watches, &c., a superior kind of pickpockets.

1816 Niles' Reg. 10 216/1 Two methodist preachers were lately robbed of their pocket-books, containing very considerable sums in bank notes.

1862 O. L. Jackson in Colonel's Diary (1922) v. 67 I..thought it best to take my pocket-book out of my pocket and put it under my head.

1936 C. Sandburg People, Yes 111 So dumb he spent his last dollar buying a pocketbook to put it in.

1963 Chicago Tribune 22 Nov. b1 The wines..he describes as ‘excellent ones and not too hard on the pocketbook (generally under $3 a bottle)’.

1994 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 23 Jan. c3/5 His wife and child are living in Phoenix now. Bill carries pictures of them in his pocketbook.

b. A handbag or purse for banknotes or coins, esp. one belonging to a woman; (also) a woman's handbag for carrying everyday personal items. Now chiefly U.S.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > woman's bag

ridicule1799

indispensable1800

reticule1801

pocketbook1830

handbag1873

purse bag1881

chain-bag1902

peggy bag1904

Dorothy bag1907

peggy purse1911

pochette1912

dolly-bag1926

purse1940

bucket bag1956

1830 C. M. Sedgwick Clarence II. viii. 143 She stowed away the separate rolls of bills in her pocket-book.

1907 St. Nicholas Sept. 1007/2 In her pretty pocket-book..she had found a crisp one-dollar bill.

1963 S. Plath Bell Jar i. 5 All the girls had pocket-book covers made out of the same material as their dresses, so each time they changed their clothes they had a matching pocket-book.

1992 M. Leyner Et Tu, Babe (1993) v. 112 I dump out the contents of her pocketbook: loaded jade-handled pistol, Quaaludes,..a packet of pharmaceutical-grade morphine.

1999 New Yorker 29 Nov. 44/2 Couples stood around quietly, the women with their pocketbooks slung to the front.

c. figurative. Chiefly North American. A person's financial resources; funds.

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society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun]

coffer1377

pursec1384

possibilityc1385

moneyc1390

financec1475

abilityc1503

purse stringc1530

moyen1547

means1560

financy1600

pocket1633

fonds1669

wherewith1674

apoinctee1682

funds1700

ways and means1738

money stock1743

pecuniary1748

pecuniar1793

wherewithal1809

ante1843

pocketbook1897

1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 223/1 At 50c. Our price poultice for tired..pocket books.

1904 N.Y. Evening Post 10 Sept. 6 Nearly every class of apartment hotel, satisfying nearly every sized pocket-book, can now be found in Manhattan.

1924 C. A. Beard Amer. Govt. 258 The laws go deep into the pocketbooks of citizens.

1946 Fortune Aug. 113/1 Beer consumption, tied to the workingman's pocketbook, had leveled off.

2019 Holland (Mich.) Sentinel 14 Dec. c1 Keep reducing the price until the house sells... Only do this with a powerful need and a healthy pocketbook.

3. U.S. slang (esp. regional (southern)) (euphemistic). The female external genitals; the vagina.

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the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun]

cuntc1230

quivera1382

chosec1386

privy chosea1387

quoniamc1405

naturec1470

shell1497

box1541

water gate1541

mouth1568

quiver case1568

water gap1586

cunnya1593

medlar1597

mark1598

buggle-boo1600

malkin1602

lap1607

skin coat1611

quim1613

nest1614

watermilla1626

bum1655

merkin1656

twat1656

notch1659

commodity1660

modicum1660

crinkum-crankum1670

honeypot1673

honour1688

muff1699

pussy1699

puss1707

fud1771

jock1790

cock?1833

fanny?1835

vaginac1890

rug1893

money-maker1896

Berkeley1899

Berkeley Hunt1899

twitchet1899

mingea1903

snatch1904

beaver1927

coozie1934

Sir Berkeley1937

pocketbook1942

pranny1949

zatch1950

cooch1955

bearded clam1962

noonie1966

chuff1967

coozea1968

carpet1981

pum-pum1983

front bum1985

coochie1986

punani1987

front bottom1991

va-jay-jay2000

1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July 92 ‘Trying to snatch my pocketbook, eh?’ she blazed.

1969 M. Angelou I know why Caged Bird Sings xi. 71 Momma had drilled into my head: ‘Keep your legs closed, and don't let nobody see your pocketbook.’

2002 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 24 Feb. d2 She remembers such nicknames as ‘Lucy’, ‘pocketbook’ and ‘cootie’ for the vagina.

B. adj. (attributive).

Chiefly North American. Relating to considerations of personal finance, esp. as a factor in politics (see sense A. 2b).

ΚΠ

1894 H. H. Furness Address 4 Our ideal Provost must know the exact location in every rich man's body of the pocket-book nerve.]

1953 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 25 Nov. 10/7 Three Democratic senators predicted today that ‘pocketbook issues’ will play an overriding role in the 1954 congressional election campaign.

1960 Life 4 July 32/1 So where are any pocketbook issues for the Democrats?

1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 72/2 He outlined some financial initiatives he was considering to improve the ‘pocketbook morale’ of the company's print side.

2002 Seattle Times (Nexis) 3 Nov. b1 For all the talk of principle, though, Norling said that if his side wins it's likely to be a strict pocketbook vote.

Compounds

C1. Objective.

pocketbook maker n.

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?1775 T. Tomlins List Livery London 206 Carter Wm. Newgate str. pocket book maker.

1845 Times 16 Oct. (Suppl.) 9/5 (advt.) Wanted, a respectable youth, as an apprentice... Direct to H., Mr. Halliwell's, pocket-book-maker, 252, Tottenham-court-road.

1992 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 22 Apr. He was employed with Julius Resnick Co., a pocket book maker, and 1000 Madison Co. before retiring.

C2.

pocketbook dropper n. now historical and rare a confidence trickster who makes money by dropping a wallet (see pocketbook dropping n.).

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1845 N.Y. Herald 7 May 2/2 The writer in the American Review..enumerates the potential agencies to which..Mr. Polk owes his election [as]..‘pocket-book droppers’, ‘brothel-owners and bullies’ [etc.].

1874 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 19 May One of those noble souls whose generous dispositions make them the prey of the pocket-book dropper and the confidence man.

1908 Washington Post 24 May The confidence men, pocketbook droppers, and so on [are] either Polacks or Italians.

2011 Wired (San Francisco) (Electronic ed.) Feb. Five foot nine, of stout frame and polite address, this specialist in crime was a pocketbook dropper.

pocketbook dropping n. now historical and rare the confidence trick of dropping a wallet with the hope of making money from a gullible person by substituting a wallet of counterfeit money, or being paid a ‘reward’.

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1852 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. Aug. 215 Their principles are ancient; their whole system is but pocketbook dropping, or thimble-rigging on an enlarged scale, with fresh apparatus.

1889 Salem (Ohio) Daily News 21 Mar. A system of ‘sharp practice’ which is only one degree less rascally than pocket-book dropping and patent-safe swindling.

2003 J. W. Frick Theatre, Culture & Temperance Reform 19th-Cent. Amer. ii. 53 Stabbings, muggings, dognapping, purse snatching, watch-stuffing, pickpocketing and ‘pocketbook dropping’ were common occurrences on city streets.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pocketbook
释义	pocketbookn.adj. Brit. /ˈpɒkɪtbʊk/, U.S. /ˈpɑkətˌbʊk/ Forms: see pocket n. and book n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pocket n., book n. Etymology: < pocket n. + book n. A. n. 1. a. Chiefly in form pocket book. A small book, adapted so as to be conveniently carried in a person's pocket. In later use chiefly North American: a paperback or other small or inexpensive edition of a book.Use of the word to denote a printed book does not seem to have been common before the 20th cent. The North American use dates from 1939, when ten titles were published in the U.S. in inexpensive paperback editions by Pocket Books, Inc., a company founded by Robert F. de Graff (1895–1981), subsequently an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > small book libel1382 livreta1450 pamphlet1496 pocketbook1617 bookling1782 bookie1787 tomelet1839 volumette1857 booklet1859 society > communication > book > kind of book > book of specific form or colour > [noun] > with specific type of back or cover blue book1633 green book1798 paperback1843 paper cover1843 yellowback1859 flat-back1888 greenback1893 paperbound1933 softback1951 hardback1953 hardcover1953 pocketbook1953 softcover1953 trade paperback1960 1617 Janua Linguarum Advt. To render the volume as portable..and if not as a manuall or pocket-booke, yet a pectorall or bosome-booke, to be carried twixt ierkin and doublet. 1648 A. Rowley (title) The scholler's companion, or a little library, containing all the interpretations of the Hebrew and Greek Bible,..brought into a pocket book. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. Introd. 45 A small Enchiridium and pocket book, easily to be carried about one. 1678 Aubrey in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 129 A little pocket-book, which may be of use where the larger tables cannot be had. 1705 Pastry-cook's Vade-mecum Pref. sig. A2^v In this Pocket-Book, all sorts of People..may find sure Remedies for their Diseases. 1783 S. Johnson Let. 23 Apr. (1994) IV. 132 I am..returning thanks for the elegant pocket book..which I shall look and think on with emotions of tenderness. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 318/2 La Rochefoucauld ranks among the scanty number of pocket-books to be read and re-read with ever new admiration, instruction, and delight. 1939 Zanesville (Ohio) Sunday Times-Signal 17 Sept. i. 10/1 (advt.) Just arrived! New titles in the famous Pocket Books... Drop in today and see why Pocket books are being welcomed so enthusiastically by thousands of people like yourself. 1953 Amer. Scholar 23 10 The Galaxy serial ‘Gravy Planet’ (recently republished in a pocket book as The Space Merchants). 1962 A. Buchwald How Much is that in Dollars? 167 Always try to get a large advance on pocket-books. 2007 D. Graham in R. Sutherland & C. Thomson Pocketbk. Radiographic Positioning (ed. 3) Foreword p. ix A pocketbook has a number of advantages over a large textbook..: a pocketbook usually contains succinct information which is readily available to the reader. b. British. A book for memoranda, notes, etc., intended to be carried in a pocket; a notebook. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [noun] book of commonplaces1562 adversaria1571 commonplace book1572 stem-book1592 commonplace1607 album1612 commonplacera1631 topic folio1644 place-booka1659 pocketbook1660 blank book1713 scrap-book1825 guard book1839 press book1897 society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > pad of paper > notebook bookOE notebook1565 tablebook1582 manuscript book1593 notary1651 pocketbook1660 tablets1773 jotter1882 pencil tablet1882 ring book1891 carnet1897 telephone pad1900 notepad1922 copy1943 1660 C. Hoole New Discov. Old Art of teaching Schoole iii. i. 139 Let them cull out the most significant words..and write them in a Pocket-book. 1687 T. Brown Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. (1704) 222 Children don't use to come into the World with their Ink-horns and Pocket-books about them. 1739 H. Baker & J. Miller tr. Molière School for Wives i. vi, in Molière Wks. III. 137 Here's some new waggish Story to minute down in my Pocket-Book. 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. II. lvii. 325 A lady..makes a memorandum..in her pocket-book. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xlii. 416 Mr. Squeers took out his pocket-book and made a note of it. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. at Brokesby, Francis From about this time onwards he used to write in his pocket-books short Latin memoranda on the incidents of his daily life. 1932 W. T. Whitley Gilbert Stuart iv. 46 All his distinguished or fashionable sitters were out of town, as can be seen by the entries in his pocket book for 1784. 1996 Independent 19 Nov. ii. 7/2 A total of 124 warnings were handed out; 124 separate sets of names and addresses were duly logged in pocket-books. 2. a. A pocket-sized folding case for holding banknotes, papers, etc.; a wallet. Now chiefly U.S.In early use not always distinguishable from sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > wallet > [noun] pocketbook1670 reader1718 dummy1785 wallet1843 insider1846 porte-monnaie1850 skin1856 bill-holder1890 bill-book1895 billfold1895 poke1908 billfolder1909 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) 399 A pistol in a pocket booke here, is as bad as the others, which being charged and let off, would presently read your doome. 1681 Protestant (Domestick) Intelligence 22 Mar. A Pocket-Book bound in Velom, ty'd about with a piece of Red Tape, was lost on Wednesday night last..with Receipts for several Sums of Money. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 153 A Merchant's Pocket-Book, or Letter-Case. 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals II. 38 A Lady whose Husband..had sent for her Over-Draughts for her Assistance to the amount of between fifteen Hundred and two Thousand Pounds, lost the Pocket-book in which they were contained. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Knuckles, pickpockets who attend the avenues to public places, to steal pocket books, watches, &c., a superior kind of pickpockets. 1816 Niles' Reg. 10 216/1 Two methodist preachers were lately robbed of their pocket-books, containing very considerable sums in bank notes. 1862 O. L. Jackson in Colonel's Diary (1922) v. 67 I..thought it best to take my pocket-book out of my pocket and put it under my head. 1936 C. Sandburg People, Yes 111 So dumb he spent his last dollar buying a pocketbook to put it in. 1963 Chicago Tribune 22 Nov. b1 The wines..he describes as ‘excellent ones and not too hard on the pocketbook (generally under $3 a bottle)’. 1994 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 23 Jan. c3/5 His wife and child are living in Phoenix now. Bill carries pictures of them in his pocketbook. b. A handbag or purse for banknotes or coins, esp. one belonging to a woman; (also) a woman's handbag for carrying everyday personal items. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > woman's bag ridicule1799 indispensable1800 reticule1801 pocketbook1830 handbag1873 purse bag1881 chain-bag1902 peggy bag1904 Dorothy bag1907 peggy purse1911 pochette1912 dolly-bag1926 purse1940 bucket bag1956 1830 C. M. Sedgwick Clarence II. viii. 143 She stowed away the separate rolls of bills in her pocket-book. 1907 St. Nicholas Sept. 1007/2 In her pretty pocket-book..she had found a crisp one-dollar bill. 1963 S. Plath Bell Jar i. 5 All the girls had pocket-book covers made out of the same material as their dresses, so each time they changed their clothes they had a matching pocket-book. 1992 M. Leyner Et Tu, Babe (1993) v. 112 I dump out the contents of her pocketbook: loaded jade-handled pistol, Quaaludes,..a packet of pharmaceutical-grade morphine. 1999 New Yorker 29 Nov. 44/2 Couples stood around quietly, the women with their pocketbooks slung to the front. c. figurative. Chiefly North American. A person's financial resources; funds. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > [noun] coffer1377 pursec1384 possibilityc1385 moneyc1390 financec1475 abilityc1503 purse stringc1530 moyen1547 means1560 financy1600 pocket1633 fonds1669 wherewith1674 apoinctee1682 funds1700 ways and means1738 money stock1743 pecuniary1748 pecuniar1793 wherewithal1809 ante1843 pocketbook1897 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 223/1 At 50c. Our price poultice for tired..pocket books. 1904 N.Y. Evening Post 10 Sept. 6 Nearly every class of apartment hotel, satisfying nearly every sized pocket-book, can now be found in Manhattan. 1924 C. A. Beard Amer. Govt. 258 The laws go deep into the pocketbooks of citizens. 1946 Fortune Aug. 113/1 Beer consumption, tied to the workingman's pocketbook, had leveled off. 2019 Holland (Mich.) Sentinel 14 Dec. c1 Keep reducing the price until the house sells... Only do this with a powerful need and a healthy pocketbook. 3. U.S. slang (esp. regional (southern)) (euphemistic). The female external genitals; the vagina. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] cuntc1230 quivera1382 chosec1386 privy chosea1387 quoniamc1405 naturec1470 shell1497 box1541 water gate1541 mouth1568 quiver case1568 water gap1586 cunnya1593 medlar1597 mark1598 buggle-boo1600 malkin1602 lap1607 skin coat1611 quim1613 nest1614 watermilla1626 bum1655 merkin1656 twat1656 notch1659 commodity1660 modicum1660 crinkum-crankum1670 honeypot1673 honour1688 muff1699 pussy1699 puss1707 fud1771 jock1790 cock?1833 fanny?1835 vaginac1890 rug1893 money-maker1896 Berkeley1899 Berkeley Hunt1899 twitchet1899 mingea1903 snatch1904 beaver1927 coozie1934 Sir Berkeley1937 pocketbook1942 pranny1949 zatch1950 cooch1955 bearded clam1962 noonie1966 chuff1967 coozea1968 carpet1981 pum-pum1983 front bum1985 coochie1986 punani1987 front bottom1991 va-jay-jay2000 1942 Z. N. Hurston in Amer. Mercury July 92 ‘Trying to snatch my pocketbook, eh?’ she blazed. 1969 M. Angelou I know why Caged Bird Sings xi. 71 Momma had drilled into my head: ‘Keep your legs closed, and don't let nobody see your pocketbook.’ 2002 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 24 Feb. d2 She remembers such nicknames as ‘Lucy’, ‘pocketbook’ and ‘cootie’ for the vagina. B. adj. (attributive). Chiefly North American. Relating to considerations of personal finance, esp. as a factor in politics (see sense A. 2b). ΚΠ 1894 H. H. Furness Address 4 Our ideal Provost must know the exact location in every rich man's body of the pocket-book nerve.] 1953 Holland (Mich.) Evening Sentinel 25 Nov. 10/7 Three Democratic senators predicted today that ‘pocketbook issues’ will play an overriding role in the 1954 congressional election campaign. 1960 Life 4 July 32/1 So where are any pocketbook issues for the Democrats? 1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 72/2 He outlined some financial initiatives he was considering to improve the ‘pocketbook morale’ of the company's print side. 2002 Seattle Times (Nexis) 3 Nov. b1 For all the talk of principle, though, Norling said that if his side wins it's likely to be a strict pocketbook vote. Compounds C1. Objective. pocketbook maker n. ΚΠ ?1775 T. Tomlins List Livery London 206 Carter Wm. Newgate str. pocket book maker. 1845 Times 16 Oct. (Suppl.) 9/5 (advt.) Wanted, a respectable youth, as an apprentice... Direct to H., Mr. Halliwell's, pocket-book-maker, 252, Tottenham-court-road. 1992 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Jrnl. 22 Apr. He was employed with Julius Resnick Co., a pocket book maker, and 1000 Madison Co. before retiring. C2. pocketbook dropper n. now historical and rare a confidence trickster who makes money by dropping a wallet (see pocketbook dropping n.). ΚΠ 1845 N.Y. Herald 7 May 2/2 The writer in the American Review..enumerates the potential agencies to which..Mr. Polk owes his election [as]..‘pocket-book droppers’, ‘brothel-owners and bullies’ [etc.]. 1874 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 19 May One of those noble souls whose generous dispositions make them the prey of the pocket-book dropper and the confidence man. 1908 Washington Post 24 May The confidence men, pocketbook droppers, and so on [are] either Polacks or Italians. 2011 Wired (San Francisco) (Electronic ed.) Feb. Five foot nine, of stout frame and polite address, this specialist in crime was a pocketbook dropper. pocketbook dropping n. now historical and rare the confidence trick of dropping a wallet with the hope of making money from a gullible person by substituting a wallet of counterfeit money, or being paid a ‘reward’. ΚΠ 1852 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. Aug. 215 Their principles are ancient; their whole system is but pocketbook dropping, or thimble-rigging on an enlarged scale, with fresh apparatus. 1889 Salem (Ohio) Daily News 21 Mar. A system of ‘sharp practice’ which is only one degree less rascally than pocket-book dropping and patent-safe swindling. 2003 J. W. Frick Theatre, Culture & Temperance Reform 19th-Cent. Amer. ii. 53 Stabbings, muggings, dognapping, purse snatching, watch-stuffing, pickpocketing and ‘pocketbook dropping’ were common occurrences on city streets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1617
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