American Slang in the early 1900s
The slang of American youth of the 1920s was female-oriented, while 1930s slang leaned toward the male. Within the body of slang was a wide assortment for girls, including a baby, bag (unattractive), beetle, belle, bim or bimbo, blimp (loose), breigh, broad, buff, butter and egg fly (popular), buttermilk (unattractive), calico, canary, choice bit of calico (attractive), clinging vine (delicate), crock (unattractive), dame, darb (popular), doll, extra (a girl no one wants to date), fem, filly, flame, flirt, frail, fuss (frequent companion) Read More on American Slang >