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Prook
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A prook is a book, typically a biography or autobiography, that is read because of what it reveals about a person or persons who are or were closely associated with the principal subject. Examples are Lord Moran's wartime diaries, when he was Churchill's doctor; singer Marianne Faithfull's Faithfull (1994), which described, among other things, her relationship with Mick Jagger and contacts with other members of the Rolling Stones; Wonderful Today (2007) by ex-model Patti Boyd, who was married in turn to George Harrison of the Beatles and guitarist Eric Clapton; and film director Roger Vadim's 1986 memoir, Bardot, Deneuve & Fonda (three ex-wives and actresses who were so famous that their surnames alone were sufficient for identification). Origin "Prook" originated in bohemian and Bloomsbury circles in the years between the First and Second World Wars. It is thought to be a portmanteau word made up of "proxy" and "book". In the 1960s the word resurfaced as polari, the camp slang. As such, it was sometimes rendered as "proxy-ook". See Also
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