Today's post features some early slang from the 1910s and as the title indicates one is about Jake. In the 19th century jake was a rustic lout or simpleton but by the 1910s people were using it as an adjective meaning excellent,admirable,fine a typical case of the old switcheroo. Flivver was a versatile word as a noun it referred to a cheap car or plane,as a verb it was an action that failed. Let's wrap the list up with an Irish term for drunk, peloothered, which sounds kind of like polluted which is a more modern term for being drunk. Words can be such a good source of entertainment particularly the more esoteric words.
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