Bees Knees & Tomato (1922) in FLAPPER DICTIONARY

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   "Bee's Knees" has become the "words ending in -gry" and "whole nine yards"
of some word sites.  People just _have_ to know the derivation of it.
   The HDAS has 1923.  "Bee's Knees," like a lot of slang, is also the name
of a drink.
   ANCESTRY.COM NOTE:  The "April 30" newspaper had "May 1" on top of the
page.  Always trust the top of the page...The "Flapper's Dictionary" title was
written in script, so it was not searchable.  This made life much more
diificult.


   28 April 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT (Appleton, Wisconsin), pg. 17, col.
4:
      _FLAPPER DICTIONARY_
   AIR TIGHT--Very attractive.
   ANKLE EXCURSION--When a flapper has to walk home.
   APPLE-KNOCKER--A hay shaker, hick, or gobby from the country.
   APPLE SAUCE--No good, awful.
   BARLOW--A flapper or spring chicken.
   BARNEY--Scandal-walker.
   BARNEY MUGGIN--Business of making love.
   BEASEL--A flapper slightly more advanced than a flapper.
   BEASEL HOUND--A girl chaser.
   BEES KNEES--Peachy, very nice.  Sometimes known as "The Berries."


   29 April 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 7, col. 2:
   BROOKSEY BOY--A good dresser.
   BRUSH APE--An Apple Knocker, a country Jake.
   BUN DUSTER--A Piker who frequents teas and other entertainments, without
ever trying to repay his social obligations.
   BUTT ME--Give me a cigaret.
   CAKE EATER--A habitual Bun Duster.
   CAT'S PAJAMAS--Anything that is very good.
   CELLAR SMELLER--A young man who always happens to be around when liquor is
to be had without cost.
   CHARLIE--Any fellow with a mustache.
   CLUCK--A girl who is a clumsy dancer.
   COW BOY--A young fellow who doesn't pay much attention to girls.


   1 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 9, col. 1:
   BELL POLISHER--A Beasel Hound who likes to linger in the vestibule at 1 a.
m.
   BIG HEARTED--Complimentary adjective describing a young man who supplies
cigarets.
   BISCUIT--A pettable Barlow or Beasel, a game Flapper.
   BLAAH--Apple Sauce, anything that is no good.
   BLOUSE--To leave or take the air.
   BLOW THE JOINT--To Blouse in a hurry.
   BOFFOS--Dollars, berries or jack.
   BOILER FACTORY--An undesirable boy or girl.
   BOOK LEGGER--A man who deals in suppressed novels, sold mostly to
Dumb-Bells.
   BOZARK--A stupid girl.


   2 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 9, col. 4:
   CRASH IN--To go to a party uninvited.
   CRUMB GOBBLER--A Cake-Eater or Bun-Buster who makes a specialty of
crashing in at teas.
   DARBS--A person with money who can be relied on to pay the check.
   DEW DROPPER--A Beasel Hound who does not work, sleeps all day and gets up
at 6 p. m.
   DINCHER--A half smoked cigaret.
   DUCK'S QUACK--The best thing ever.
   DUDD--A boy or girl given to reading or studying.
   DUMBBELL--Dumb but happy.
   DUMBDORA--Stupid girl.
   EGG--A hard-boiled Cake-Eater.


   3 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 7, col. 4:
   EGG HARBOR--Dance hall where no admission is charged.
   EIGHT MINUTES--A very hard boiled Egg.
   FALSE ALARM--A girl who trys to be a Scandal Walker.
   FINAGLER--A person who stalls until someone else pays the bill.
   FINALE HOPPER--A young person who makes a business of crashing in a dance
after the ticket takers have left their posts.
   FLAT SHOE--Fight between a Flapper and her Goof.
   FLAT WHEELER--A young man whose idea of entertaining a girl is to take her
out for an Ankle Excursion.
   FLIPPER--A male Flapper.
   FROG'S EYEBROWS--Nice fine.
   GERRYFLAPPER--A Barlow who thinks she looks like Geraldine Farrar.


   4 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 9, col. 4:
   GIVEN THE AIR--When A Flapper or a Flipper is thrown down on a date.
   GLIMMERS--Eyes.
   GOBBY--A Dumbell who has no style, no pep, no nothing.
   GOOF--A sap, a guy, a fish, a fellow.
   GOOFY--State of being in love.
   GREASE-BALL--An ill-mannered, poorly dressed Cake-Eater.
   GREENS--Buffos, kale, dough, money.
   GRUBBER--One who is always borrowing cigarets.
   GRUMMY--Despondent, blue.
   HALF-CUT--Happily intoxicated, as distinguished from being Jammed or
Stewed.


   6 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg.11, col. 1:
   HEAVY NECKER--A Biscuit, or flapper, very fond of petting.
   HOLAHOLY--A girl or boy who objects to necking.
   HOLY SMOKES--Probation officers who visit dance halls to make sure that
there is no improper dancing.
   HOOF--To go out for an Ankle Excursion.
   HOT DOG--A joyous expression of approval.
   HOUDINI--To be on time for a date.
   IRONSIDES--Now obsolete--formerly used to denote girls who wore corsets
while dancing.
   JAMMED--Intoxicated, pickled, shellacked, canned, out like a light,
potted, shined, drunk.
   JANE--A girl who meets a fellow on the stoop.
   JOLAPPY--Synonym for Flapper.


   8 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 11, col. 1:
   KLIPPY--Like the Frog's Eyebrows--nat and nice.
   LALAPAZAZA--A good sport.
   LAMP POST--Any noticeable piece of jewelry.
   LENS-LOUSE--A person given to monopolizing the conversation.
   LOB--A dumb trick.
   LOLLYGAGGER--A Bell-Polisher addicted to hallway spooning.
   LOVE NESTLER--Flapper with unkempt hobbed hair.
   LOW LID--The opposite of a High-Brow.
   MAD MONEY--Flapper's carfare home in case of a Flat SHoe--or fight--with
her Goof.
   MONOG--A young person of either sex who is Goofy about only one person at
a time.


   9 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 9, col. 1:
   MOOCH--To Blouse or beat it suddenly.
   NECKER--A Flapper or Flipper given to cheek-to-cheek dancing.
   NICE GIRL--One who takes fellow in and introduces him to the family.
   NON-SKID--A girl who can carry liquor.
   NOT SO GOOD--A comment of dis-satisfaction.
   ONE FLIGHT UP==Reference to the practice of a Cake-Eater saving one
dollar.
   ONE WAY KID--A person who takes everything and gives nothing.
   OSTRICH--Anyone who thinks he knows it all.
   OTIS--A young man from the country.
   OVERDOSE OF OUTSIDE SHELLAC--Description of a Flapper with too much powder
on her face.


   10 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 13, cols. 6-7:
   OVER THERE--A warning that the girl lives too far to take a taxi.
   OUT ON PAROLE--A person who has been divorced.
   PIPE DOWN--To lay off, to hush up.
   PLASTERED--Jammed, intoxicated.
   POCKET TWISTER--A gold digger, a flapper of expensive tastes.
   PUNK--Any sort of undesirable.
   PUT THE GLIMMERS ON--Take notice.
   REEL BOY--One who takes his girl to the movies continually.
   RITZY--A Flapper who dresses like a vamp--black dress, jet earrings, black
socks.
   RUG HOPPER--A parlor hound who never takes his girl out.


   11 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 13, col. 4:
   RUG SHAKER--A girl addicted to shimmying.
   SAP--A Finale-Hopper.
   SCANDAL-WALKER--A Collegique Flapper or FLipper so called on account of
the Collegique form of dancing.
   SCOOT--A term to denote an elevator boy.
   SEVENTEEN SEVBENTY-SIX--A girl who lives in a house without a vestibule.
Little chance for the Bell Polisher.
   SHAKE IT--A dancing term to do a "Chicago."
   SHARPY--A young Beasel Hound who tries to imitate a Sharpshooter.
   SHARPSHOOTER--A good dancer who spends his money freely.
   SLUMMERS--Girls who go to studio parties.
   SLUNGE--The lowest kind of human being.


   12 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 11, col. 1:
   SMOKE-EATER--A Flapper with a strong appetite for cigarets.
   SMUDGER--One who does all the close fitting dance steps.
   SNAKE--A wild boy, a regular devil.
   SNUGGLE PUPPY--A Flapper or Flipper who is over-sentimental.
   SOAKED WITH THE BAR RAG--Description of a youngster who has had one drink.
   SPONGE CAKE--A Sharpie who dodges hat check charges by wearing a cap to a
dance and stuffing it in his vest.
   SQUIRREL--To hide.
   STEPPER--One who really can dance.
   STORM AND STRIFE--A married Cake-Eater's way of referring to his wife.
   STRIKE-BREAKER--A girl put in to take the place of a young man's regular
wqhen she is away.


   13 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 7, col. 1:
   STREETED--Boy who gets thrown out on the street for taking punch at a
rival.
   SUB CHASER--A Flipper whp tries to pick up girls on the street.
   TEMPO'S BAD--Off color.
   THEY--Used by Flappers with tone of disgust to denote the older
generation.
   TIGHT--Attractive.
   TOMATO--A good looking girl who can dance like a blue streak, but is
otherwise a perfect Dumbbell.
   TWIST--A girl one takes out to dances to do fancy steps.
   VEAL--A Flapper who sets out to vamp with malice aforethought.


   15 May 1922, APPLETON POST-CRESCENT, pg. 9, col. 1:
   WALLIE--A Goof with patent leather hair.
   WEASEL--A scandal walker who breaks the girls' hearts.
   WEEDS--Would-be wild ones.
   WIND-SUCKER--A braggart.
   WOODEN WOMAN--A girl who cannot step along.
   WOOF!  WOOF!--An excalamation of ridicule or indignation.
   WRINKLE--The mother of a Flapper.
   WURP--Anyone who is a wet blanket socially.



   16 December 1922, INDIANA EVENING GAZETTE (Indiana, Pennsylvania), pg. 8,
col. 5:
Bees' Knees.
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   Fox-Trots.
Ted Lewis and His Band.
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