Sadly forgotten slang from the 20s. Wonder if I can revive any?

I was reading Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football by Murray A. Sperber and in speeches Knute Rockne is said to disparage, “the tailor’s model, the tea hound, the poser and the man who can’t take it.”

In one of his favorite anecdotes he recalls Notre Dame went “cake-eater” by electing as senior class president a boy of whom Rockne said, “Whenever I met him I didn’t know whether to kiss him or slap him.”

Now I am eager to find opportunities to call people tea hounds or suggest that they have gone cake-eater.

Any other obscure derision I can use?

oh my…Heavens to Betsy!

Urban dictionary seems to say cake-eater is still in use and was used in the movie “The Mighty Ducks”

Listen, kiddo - sounds like baloney, bunk, banana oil, hokum, horsefeathers and applesauce. It’s all wet, ya pill. Tell it to Sweeney!

You could call someone a poodle-faker, which when I first heard it I took to be a lot worse than it really is.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-poo1.htm

It might be a bit too British, though it would be nice to see it revived.

Wipe that puss off your face!

Some of those phrases are the bee’s knees!

I think you meant to say “phiz”.

Well I’ll be blowed. Better 23 skiddoo while I can.

I wouldn’t mind putting my kidney-disturber into that keptee’s flue!

Pardon my boner.
(Mistake.)

Aren’t baloney and bunk still in common use, or are they only used in my neck of the woods?

I’ve been known to get a bit tight now and then.

He’s… err… A little light in the loafers.

Use them! Bask in the knowledge that while everyone else uses bitch and cunt, you are using bint. Why call someone a bastard when you can call him a git? American swearing is so uncreative that nobody notices fuck anymore, but telling someone to “why don’t you just go off and attempt to fornicate yourself” does make them blink.

One of the guys in my club can curse about someone for 20 minutes, never repeat himself and never gets vulgar. I take notes when he’s going off.

I’m giving this whole thread the horse laugh.

I think it’d be swell if you could reinvigorate some long lost slang.

Your neck of the woods sounds keen and darb, but not hip to the jive.

Tight? When I’m having a lollapalooza, I get spifflicated for my mazuma!!

if the music is right, I’ve been known to cut a rug…

When I was in college in the '80s, my girlfriend was from suburban St. Paul…as the UrbanDictionary entry notes, it was still a common derogatory term for people from Edina, MN at that point.