It’s the roaring 20’s and I’m all for it … so here’s 20 phrases from the 1920’s I’m looking forward to bringing back in style in 2020… so here is what I did over the weekend:
I took a jorum of skee before ankling to my hayburner cause Im no wurp, and headed to the sockdollager totes zozzled. I peeped this bearcat rocking a handcuff and being a cake-eater ankled over to her and demanded a gasper in hopes of getting some cash. She turned out to be a real bluenose cancelled stamp who thought me a dewdropper when really Im quite an egg and oliver twist. Getting the icy mit I jumped ship to the petting pantry grabbing a sinker so I didn’t pull a daniel boone on the way. What a night!
1. Ankle: to walk
2. Sockdollager: an event or action of great importance
3. Bearcat: a lively, spirited woman, possibly with a fiery streak
4. Bluenose: term for a prude or individual deemed to be a killjoy
5.. Cancelled stamp: a shy, lonely female, the type one would describe as a “wallflower”
6. Cash: a smooch
7. Cake-eater: in the 1920’s refers to a “ladies’ man”; later, slang for homosexual
8. Dewdropper: like lollygagger, a slacker who sits around all day and does nothing, often unemployed
9. Egg: a person who leads an absurdly wealthy, extravagant lifestyle (see: Gatsby’s “West Egg”)
10. Gasper: cigarette, “fag” (also of the 1920s)
11. Handcuff: engagement ring
12. Hayburner: a car with poor gas-mileage, a guzzler
13. Icy mitt: rejection from the object of one’s affection, as in: “He got the icy mitt.”
14. Sinker: a doughnut
15. Jorum of skee: a swig of alcohol, particularly hard liquor
16. Oliver Twist: an extremely good dancer.
17. Petting pantry: a cinema or movie theatre
18. Pull a Daniel Boone: to upchuck
19. Wurp: wet blanket or person seen as a buzzkill (see: Debbie Downer)
20. Zozzled: shitfaced
52. Sockdollager: an event or action of great importance