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- noun dated, colloquialism A young
man too much given totea parties andladies' society generally (often forsocial advancement ).
Etymologies
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Early 20th Century.
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knitandpurl commented on the word poodlefaker
"Damn fool, he thought. You walked right into it, you clown. Because now he'd have even less freedom than before: Gödel would pin him down in some poodle-faking routine when he ought to be out hunting this Spanish mummer—if she really did exist, and if it really was her."
The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman, p 81 of the 2008 Knopf paperback edition
August 28, 2011