Flappers' Dictionary (September 1922): "blouse" (to go);"sweetie"

[Sam Clements]

A further note about the 1922 "flapper dictionary."

It must have been an actual book as I can find cites in multiple newspapers
from 1922, using ancestry.com, citing words and their meanings from a
"flapper dictionary."

Latest one of interest, though not an antedating, was from the Eyria(OH)
Chronicle Telegram.

Crasher:  An uninvited guest.

HDAS has the same meaning only from 1921(Variety).

SC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Clements" <sclements at NEO.RR.COM>
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Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: Flappers' Dictionary (September 1922): "blouse" (to
go);"sweetie"


> In the same year(1922) and in the same state(IL), using ancestry.com, the
> Decatur(IL) Review has an ad saying:
>      Boys' Khaki flapper Suits, 89cents
>     So much wanted two-piece suits , blouse and pants in flapper
> style...........89 cents.
>
> What do you make of that?
> SC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 3:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Flappers' Dictionary (September 1922): "blouse" (to
> go);"sweetie"
>
>
> > Two items in the 1922 Flappers' Dictionary caught my attention:
> > 1) "blouse"--Why does "Let's blouse" mean "Let's go"? -- I don't see
this
> term in HDAS or Jonathon Green's _Cassell's Dictionary of Slang_.
> >
> > 2) "Sweetie"--anything a flapper hates. -- Cf. Ellen Goodman's
syndicated
> column today: "California--Arnold goes mano-a-womano' big mistake." e.g.
in
> St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 9/28/2003, sec. B, p. 3/1.
> > The article concerns Schwarzenegger's comments to Arianna Huffington in
> the debate a few days ago.. Goodman writes: "We know how you
> [Schwarzennegger] bragged about creating this scene to Entertainment
Weekly
> last July: 'How many times do you get away with taking a woman and burying
> her face in a toilet bowl?'" Now this? [His debate-comments to
Huffington].
> >     "Arnold, sweetheart, get yourself rewrite."
> >
> > Gerald Cohen
> >
> > -----Original Message----- (from Barry Popik, 9/27/2003)
> >  14 September 1922, EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER (Edwardsville, Illinois),
> > pg. 4?, col. 4:
> > OFFICE CAT
> > BY JUNIUS
> > COPYRIGHT 1921 BY EDGAR ALLAN MOSE.
> >    _The Flappers' Dictionary._
> > ...
> > Blouse:  To go, as, "Let's blouse."
> > ...
> > Sweetie:  Anybody a flapper hates.
> > ...
> >
>