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Show ENGLISH LANGUAGE AS SPOKEN "1 BY THE YOUNGER GENERATION: I Helpful Glossary for Parents of Today ?- (From the Kett York Snnd.iy World) . rELUR S"'M KliLFR A younrc men who always turns up where Unior Is to be found without cost. CAKE-EATEB A small-salaried male person who frequents teas and other oth-er entertainments and never make any effcit to repay his social obll-Katlons. obll-Katlons. PARES A person with money wno can be relied upon to pay the check. EGG A hard-boiled csJse-eater who lets a Jane pav her own way into 8 dance hall. Eg? Harbor A dance hall where no admission is charged. PLAT-WHEELiEB A young man whose Idea of entertaining a girl 1" to take her for a walk. ERIE Any person who lives in New. jf.rsc e. g. A lot of Erles hitting around the hotel ' i V EU-THERE A person, male or te-nialf te-nialf who lives In Brooklyn of ten used In warning where a taxlcab la Involved. , 9TBIKE-BRBAKER A girl put In to take the place of a young man s regular reg-ular girl when sln Is aw;i FINLE-lKl'rEK A young man 01 a young woman who makes a Imsl-ne'ss Imsl-ne'ss of appearing late at dances after af-ter the ticket-takers have gone PUNK Any sort of an nndensabie person of either sex Si'ANIAE-VVAl-KEK A rollers boy .lln I frnm ihf-ll' niflll- Or girl. (U-l-.invu ner of walking or dancing HOLiAHOLY A girl or boy who objects ob-jects to necking Dl'MIORA A' stupid girl- JANE A girl who meets you on tnej stoop. , NICE OIRTj One who takes you in and Introduces you to her family GLIMMERS The eyes of either sex. "To put the glimmers on" to take notice. , A BROOKSY BOY A good dresser, or an overdressed young man. THE CAT'S PAJAMAS- Anything that is very good HOT DOG A joyous expression of ap proval . . , GIVEN' THE AIR When a girl or fellow fel-low Is thrown down on a date. GERRYFLAPPER girl who thinks sho looks like Gcrahllne Farrar and adores her FIN" A i EE ft V young nrin who stallH until someone else pays tho check. LOLEYGAGGER young man addicted ad-dicted lo attempts at hallway spoon-, SMl'DGER One who does all the cloBe-flitlng dancing stops. DID I WAS An exclamation of approval. ap-proval. WIND-SL'CKEP. An person glvn to boasting , . DOW-E1I The opposite of Jughbr.. LBNS-LrOUSE A person given to monopolizing conversation. HIS TEMPO'S BAD A phrase u9cu about nn nne off color in any wav GREASE-BALL A foreign ca-ke-eat-er. i KBCKER A person ol either ses piv-en piv-en to cheek to cheek dancing BUN-DUSTER Another name for R cake-eater. RUG-HOPPER A young man who never takes a girl out. A parlor-hound. parlor-hound. CLUCK A girl who dances clun DHW-DROPPBB A young man who; does not work, sleeps all day .andj gets up at 6 p m. OUT ON PAROLE A person of elth'-r who hns been divorced SIB-CHASER A Minn WhfJ tries t pick up girls on th- Mtreet TWIST A girl one takes out t" il i n "to twls: and twirl " STORM AND STRIFE A married cake-eater's way of referring to his wife. BARLrOW A girl, a flapper, a Chlck-I en RL()ISE To leave, to beat it. to meander, me-ander, to take the air, to blow, "'Let'H blouse." . GOOFY To be In love with or r-tracted r-tracted to. "I'm goofy about Jack meaning there's nothing to It. It's APPLE-SAUCE The same as 'blaah'1 out. KIBITZER A fellow who stands around a dance hall or card game giving unasked for advice. A noisy wnll-flower. A WALXil B A goof with patent-leather hair. DUMB-BELL A somewhat archaic expression indicating 0 person who has more looks than brains Also, dumb-bunny JAMMED lntoxicat.-d. bologn ISd ple-cyed, pltfled. shot, shellac kedJ canned, out HKe a llghf .stewed i the hat potted, jiggered, tanked. QOOF A fellow, a sap. a guy, a fish, a bird THEY- Used wilh lories of disgust, tlv older generation. Objecting parents. par-ents. BELL-POLISHER A young man addicted ad-dicted to lingering In the vestibule at 1 a. m. BOPKiiS Dollars, otherwise known as rocks, seeds, lu rries, chips and I jack. t PIPE-L Vi'N A synonym of "lay off" I to hush up. CRASHER Anyone who comes to parlies uninvited. I'mnlilng-party. where several young men In a ffroul go to places uninvited BLAAII Anything that is no good, or is "out." ' TO MAT.' -A pretty girl, who can danco like a streak, but is otherwise a dumdora. SCOOT A term used by girls tq de- note a youth who runs an elevator. WRINKLE The mother of a stago girl For example, "Was the wrinkle with her?" ( 'TIS Also Dumb-otls A young man from the country. BUST A man who makes his living in the prize ring, a pugilist. "NOT SO GOOD" A comment of dissatisfaction. dis-satisfaction. BIG-HEARTED A complimentary term to a young man supplying cigarettes. cig-arettes. DUDD A boy or girl given to reading or study. SQUIRREL To hide; for example, a girl squirrels money in her stocking MD MONEY Money a girl carries,1 In case she has a row with her escort es-cort and wishes to go home alone. MONOlI A young person of either sex who Is "goofy" about only one person per-son at a time. IRONSIDES Archaic, formerly, used to denote girls who wore corsets while dancing. OVERDOSE OF SHELLAC" Descrlp. tlon of a girl who had on too much powder. RUG-SHAKER A girl who is addicted addict-ed to shimmying. |