A few more:
- Teenage slang from the twenties - a good-looking guy was a sheik or jazzbo
a good-looking girl was a sheba or she might also be the berries, your sweet patootie, the cat's pajamas, or the bee's knees.
If a sheik tried to flirt with a sheba she might say "Applesauce!" or "So's your anchovie."
One of the worst insults to call someone was "wet"; it meant completely dull, unfashionable, boring.
An unattractive girl was a dumdora, oil can, flat tire, or pickle; an unattractive man was a grummy ostrich, parlor hound, or porcupine.
Something really good was swell, and something really funny was a hoot.
- Teenage slang from the thirties - Cigarettes were called "coffin nails" which were purchased with "jack".
Something funny was a "hoot" or "scream"
"Cheese it" meant to run away
You had "the eagers" for someone if you were really interested.
If someone was talking nonsense, you said, "booshwash!," and if someone was just not paying attention, they were simply "fog-bound."
- Teenage slang from the fourties - Something good was smooth, snazzy, neat, rare, a killer-diller.
The really groovy cats added "-renny," or "-rooney," or "-o-rooney," to any word to make it swing.
A good-looking girl was an angel cake, butterfly, slick chick, fly chick, or filly. A smooth guy was simply luscious, a bunny boy, Jackson, Pappy, Romeo, or swooney. No girl wanted to date a drip, jerk, schmo, square, or geek.
Hep and hip were used interchangeably until the Forties when hip became the word of choice.
- Teenage slang from the fifties - Cool was the word used most to approve of something.
To cool it was to relax, take it easy.
Girls who liked something might say it was neat; something a little bit offbeat might by kooky.
Teens who enjoyed a really funny joke might say it fractured them; something that was easy was no sweat.
Man, cat, and baby were terms of address for anyone, male or female.
If someone went crazy or out of control, he had wigged out or gone off the deep end.
To punk out was to be a coward.
