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llila blount — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:17:38 -0000

What a terrific vocabulary and no swear ,or rude ,or anti-feminine words.
Big change from the language used today all over the world, really aggressive and rude.

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David P. Lochner — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:56:37 -0000

"Frail" does refer to a woman. This list is merely from his hepster's dictionary 1942 edition. There was a lot before it. Then again I'm no icky and I've got my boots on. Me and my friends can collar that jive because the dicty dames and killer-diller cats i cut rugs with don't got there glasses on. But it's time to climb under them dreamers since I'm beat for my doss.

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Wavy Davy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:13:45 -0000

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

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Evert de Ruiter — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:27:05 -0000

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

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Steve P — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:31:48 -0000

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

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DubC — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:04:56 -0000

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

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april brooks — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:22:16 -0000

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.

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Wrathbone — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:28:34 -0000

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.

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Alex M. Thompson — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:48:10 -0000

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

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Daniel Richard — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:54:48 -0000

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

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Nate — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:37:40 -0000

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