Word: peckerheads
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...View from Partridge Sir: In your Nov. 14 Cinema review of The View from Pompey's Head I note the use of the word "peckerhead." I have my own definition of this word-will you kindly provide me with yours? PERRY W. PARKER Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Palmdale, Calif. ¶ According to Partridge's Dictionary oj Slang and TIME'S movie reviewer, peckerhead means a kind of beak-nosed eager beaver...
When the girl's husband (Cameron Mitchell), a got-rich peckerhead, finds out about that hotel visit, he ravishes his wife, just to even the score. Next day behind a sand dune, Egan has a "soul-shaking experience" with the lady, but Mitchell is victorious in the end. He tells his wife that if she leaves him, she must also leave the old plantation. In the book the plantation was no more than a makeweight for the whole way of life it implied. In the picture it merely looks as if she loves her fun, but oh, that real...
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