pinkinroller - Joycean coinage?

mikebailey at speakeasy.net mikebailey at speakeasy.net
Mon Aug 7 00:37:57 CDT 2006


pink, like Wodehouse's "pink chap" - fresh-faced, not leathery and tan like the outlaws, indicative of an indoor trade

in-roller as "just rolled in" to town

cf tenderfoot 

in FW, not just the author but the characters all use such terms...





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