DISQUS

Nate · 1 year ago

I swear you are reading my mind Brett. All these articles keep going along with everything I am into lately.

Daniel Richard · 1 year ago

Huge list huge list! But a great one over here too. :D

Alex M. Thompson · 1 year ago

You forgot "muggles," which of course means cannabis.

Wrathbone · 1 year ago

I wish I could speak this lingo, but then again no one would know what the hell I was saying half the time...Cab's dialect is too cool for the modern age.

april brooks · 1 year ago

Wow!!! I was first introduced to Cab Calloway on Sesame Street at a very early age. I was immediately fascinated and after re-watching the Sesame Street clip (#4 above) it is easy to understand why. What kid wouldn't like that?!? I went around singing my own version of the Hi De Ho Man for weeks! The dictionary is awesome and I think that we should immediately start using fraughty, fromby, guzzlin' foam, trickeration and trilly in normal conversation. I think I'll start with guzzlin' foam.

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite websites!

Next can someone do a piece about the lingo of the old west? I know that I read somewhere that there is a whole category of long words like hornswoggled and absquatulate that westerners made up to make fun of the highfalutin easterners.
My own meager attempts to verify this or find more words has come up short, but I can't get it out of my brain.

DubC · 1 year ago

Cab Calloway was also in The Blues Brothers movie. He was Curtis, and preformed Minnie the Moocher at the end of the movie.

Steve P · 1 year ago

From "Bass Line" -- Milt Hinton's book:
`A "cow" was a hundred bucks. A "calf" was fifty.

Evert de Ruiter · 1 year ago

I'd love to speak like that :) But I'm afraid nobody will understand me... It's a very cool slang :)

Wavy Davy · 10 months ago

I noticed 'frail' isn't explained... doesn't that refer to a female in many of the era's tunes?