They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

[KeyGrip]

My friend and I are trying to bring back "Cracker Jack!" and "Boffo!"

 

[Lady Day]

American Slang

Monetary Slang


This one might also be a cool thread to look into.

LD

 

[The Wolf]

I still use cool, neat and swell.
The monetary slang thread that the lovely Lady Day linked has one of my favorite old timey slang words: sawbuck. I love the poetry of it. A buck is a bill and a sawbuck is shaped like an X (Roman numeral for 10). Does it get better than that?

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[Dixon Cannon]

"What in tarnation!!?"

Tarnation!.. a big one where my sister lives in North Carolina.

It's a contraction of "What in the 'Entire Nation'......?

(Also, always loved hearing 'Hoss' say "Dad-burn-it!")

-dixon cannon

 

[Spitfire]

Tally Ho, Jolly good show....RAF banter is my style.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKYL0tW-Ek

Doesn't work every time though.lol lol lol

 

[SpitfireXIV]

Tally Ho, Jolly good show....RAF banter is my style.

tally ho is a classic!

 

[retrogirl1941]

These slang words are from a 1937 issue of Ladies Home Journal. They wanted to keep girls going off to college informed of the latest slang.

Hardware- Fraternity Jewelry
In the Swish-In the know
Pitching Woo-Necking
To Jelly- A soda and cigerette date
Wolfing-Stealing other girls dates
Wheel a sled-To drive a car
Kee Wee-Good, Swell

I love kee wee and in the the swish! I have been using those a week straight and nobody knows what I am saying.lol But other than those swell has a permanent place in the vocabulary.

Samantha

 

[LizzieMaine]

Aw, nertz! Commonly heard from me when something happens that shouldn't -- picked it up from my grandmother, Class of 1929.

My grandfather was a fountain of vintage slang, much of unsuitable for public consumption. But one of his favorite phrases, used whenever something pleased him, was "Ain't that a cockah!" I had no idea what it meant, until I realized it was simply a Maine dialect pronounciation of "corker," which was popular slang c. 1915 for something especially good.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Vintage slang,...

...is the bee's knee's. What more can I say? [huh]

 

[Miss 1940's]

my everyday slang is

Swell, Dames, bees Knees, the cats Meow,say, whats the BIG idea, Jeepers!

 

[Feraud]

This book is a good one for military slang.
War Slang: American Fighting Words and Phrases Since the Civil War

 

[Miss 1940's]

Oh yes,
what a dish, what a drag, daddy O and darling.... I use darling in every sentence I speak...well almost!

 

[Darhling]

well, it shouldn't come as a surprise what my favorite word/slang is .. everyone and everything can become just so Daaarhling

 

[olive bleu]

lol "what in tarnation!" was one my dad used alot. at least around us. I suspect outside of the house he might have used phrases that were a a tad less benign.I LOVE saying "Swell", and also use the word "dishy" alot...when i encounter someone that is "dishy" that is

 

[kmike1918]

Slang

"Thats the Ticket"!, "Hello Joe, whataya know"!

 

[kmike1918]

Oh also one I use a lot when someone mentions a lot of "dough ray me" is: That ain't hay brother!

 

[AmateisGal]

"So long."

My grandfather always, always said this to us when we were leaving his house. We were never to say goodbye, always "so long" because saying "goodbye" meant we'd never see each other again.

 

[TheDutchess]

I tend to say Gee Wiz alot. So much one of my friends calls me Charlie Brown.

 

[imported_the_librarian]

Although I would never utter this in real life, when I do my writing, I love to have the bad guys say this:

"Shut yer pie-hole..."

Perfect bad guy utterances....in a pulpy way!*

*Remember, I'm a hack writer...no class....

 

[LizzieMaine]

My niece, when she was about five years old, looked me in the eye, folded her arms, and sneered "SHUT YER PIE HOLE." I don't know where she got it from, but I suspect somebody who writes one of those kiddie cartoons on cable may be a secret vintagephile.