# Sadly forgotten slang from the 20s. Wonder if I can revive any? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274 "2012-11-17T03:33:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/1 "2012-11-17T03:33:15Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/2 "2012-11-17T04:58:38Z")
oh my…Heavens to Betsy! ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/3 "2012-11-17T14:00:59Z")
Urban dictionary seems to say cake-eater is still in use and was used in the movie “The Mighty Ducks” > **[Urban Dictionary: cake eater](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cake%20eater&defid=419700)** > > A cake eater actually refers to Edina, MN, saying the people in it are so rich they can have their cake and eat it too. It could also refer to rich white suburban kids in general, too. And BTW- Mighty Ducks was filmed in Minnesota, so he's probably... ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/4 "2012-11-17T14:06:54Z")
Listen, kiddo - sounds like baloney, bunk, banana oil, hokum, horsefeathers and applesauce. It’s all wet, ya pill. Tell it to Sweeney! ---
**Author:** ![Weirofhermiston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e274bd/32.png) [@Weirofhermiston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirofhermiston)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/5 "2012-11-17T20:11:30Z")
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](http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-poo1.htm) It might be a bit too British, though it would be nice to see it revived. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/6 "2012-11-17T20:22:48Z")
Wipe that puss off your face! ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/7 "2012-11-17T21:17:42Z")
Some of those phrases are the bee’s knees! ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/8 "2012-11-17T21:47:40Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Wipe that puss off your face! I think you meant to say “phiz”. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/9 "2012-11-17T21:55:39Z")
Well I’ll be blowed. Better 23 skiddoo while I can. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/10 "2012-11-17T22:25:46Z")
I wouldn’t mind putting my kidney-disturber into that keptee’s flue! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/11 "2012-11-17T22:28:23Z")
Pardon my boner. (Mistake.) ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/12 "2012-11-17T23:03:27Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > Listen, kiddo - sounds like baloney, bunk, banana oil, hokum, horsefeathers and applesauce. It’s all wet, ya pill. Tell it to Sweeney! Aren’t baloney and bunk still in common use, or are they only used in my neck of the woods? ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/13 "2012-11-17T23:07:08Z")
I’ve been known to get a bit tight now and then. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/14 "2012-11-17T23:25:12Z")
He’s… err… A little light in the loafers. ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/15 "2012-11-17T23:54:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/16 "2012-11-17T23:55:33Z")
I’m giving this whole thread the horse laugh. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/17 "2012-11-17T23:57:57Z")
I think it’d be swell if you could reinvigorate some long lost slang. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/18 "2012-11-18T01:07:46Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > Aren’t baloney and bunk still in common use, or are they only used in my neck of the woods? Your neck of the woods sounds keen and darb, but not hip to the jive. > [@LawMonkey](#): > > I’ve been known to get a bit tight now and then. Tight? When I’m having a lollapalooza, I get spifflicated for my mazuma!! ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/19 "2012-11-18T01:29:42Z")
if the music is right, I’ve been known to cut a rug… ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274/20 "2012-11-18T02:26:51Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > Urban dictionary seems to say cake-eater is still in use and was used in the movie “The Mighty Ducks” > > [Urban Dictionary: cake eater](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cake%20eater&defid=419700) 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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sadly-forgotten-slang-from-the-20s-wonder-if-i-can-revive-any/641274.md?page=2)