A to Z: Hats Off and Bottoms Up!

Sound the kaZoos! This is it! The moment has arrived! The day the A to Z Challenge says,

"Z END"

Bravo to all of you A to Z participants, whose brainpower collided to generate a glorious buZZ of energy throughout cyberspace. This month was the cat's meow, so let's make whoopee, maybe even organize a rub where we can dance the Charleston and celebrate our achievement! If you missed out on any of it, don't be a wurp and just sit there like a flat tire left holding the bag (you look like a bug-eyed Betty when you frown) or recline like some high hat dewdropper, acting all upstage and giving A to Z the icy mitt. I'm sure you have your excuses, but tell it to Sweeney and then ankle on over to our blogs anyway so you can know your onions. Vamps, doll up with your munitions, and smoke-eaters, bring a pack to share. Come one, come all--everyone and everything is jake at A to Z!

But you'll have to drink more than noodle juice to achieve today's final installment of 1920s slang. Pick up your panther piss or other giggle water of choice and gulp down that quilt in hearty quantity to go from an edge to positively ossified.

~*~  ZOZZLED  ~*~

Meaning: Drunk

"Ladies, I don't know about you, but it's a hot day, these are cool bottles, and after twenty-six days of the A to Z Challenge, I'm getting good and zozzled."

And to the story that inspired my A to Z theme this year, cheers, SEVEN FOR A SECRET! I wish you well, my debut book baby, as you prepare to enter the world this summer. I promise I wasn't zozzled when you were conceived...well, not the entire time.

A to Z: Hardy-Har-Har

 
It's no joke--the A to Z Challenge is almost ov-ah! Getting a little slap-happy here toward the end, but cheers to all of you whose A to Z posts have cracked me up through the month. What a lovely community of bloggers, where there's no brewhaha, only bwahaha...

Laughter is the best medicine, so they say, so let's administer this next healthy dose of 1920s slang:

~*~  YOU SLAY ME!  ~*~

Meaning: That's funny!

"Sir, what day is it?"
"Thursday."
"So am I. Let's go have another beer."
"Ha! Fella, you slay me!"

A to Z: Charleston, Charleston...

Well, huzzah and hurrah for the X-citing final week of 2014's April A to Z Blog Challenge! What an X-cellent achievement for all the A to Z participants this year, who've X-celled in X-pressing their X-pertise for nearly the full X-tent of the alphabet so far.

And I bet I'm not the only one having to make an X-ception for today's letter, which is a tricky little sucker to find an X-ample of for this blog X-cercise.

Let me X-plain: I couldn't find an X word anywhere in the 1920s slang l-X-icon. So while I can't provide an X-act fit, to suit my purposes today, "X" stands for:

~*~  CRISS-CROSS  ~*~

As in, the knee-knocking Charleston dance.

Josephine Baker shows us how it's done.

A to Z: The Toxic 'Tude

I hate to burst your bubble, but the A to Z Challenge is almost over, ya know. No one involved is posting anything tomorrow since it's Sunday, and then after that, there are only three more days left in April. Bummer.

But I don't mean to be the Eeyore of the bunch and kill your spirits. The glass may be well more than half empty, but we still have four letters left to go (including today), which means your 1920s slang lesson ain't over 'til it's over, see?

And since today is "Double-U," I'm going to double the fun with a BONUS WORD! See? Things aren't all that bad, right? So let's party like it's April 1...

~*~  WURP  ~*~

Also, WET BLANKET 
(or FIRE EXTINGUISHER if a chaperone)
Meaning: A killjoy, Debbie Downer


~*~  WHOOPEE  ~*~
Meaning: To have a good time
(not necessarily sex, you dirty birdies)

"Geez, there goes Milli again, being a total
wurp when she should be making whoopee."

A to Z: Cocktails and Cockteases

My blog is batting its eyelashes at you today, beckoning you to come hither for today's A to Z Challenge.

Tempted?

Then sway your hips on over here like the sultry little hussy you are, and we'll roll more tantalizing Twenties slang off the tips of our velvety tongues.

Ba-boom chicka...

~*~  VAMP  ~*~

Meaning: An aggressive flirt, seductress.

Silent on screen,
this vamp had va-voom.

A to Z: The Indiscreet Elite

Condescending to join me again for the A to Z Challenge? Thank you, daaahhlings, for not turning your sophisticated noses up at my vulgar language.

The spirit of this month's theme stems from my debut novel, SEVEN FOR A SECRET, due for release by Omnific Publishing this summer. It's a half-contemporary, half-historical romance in which a Jazz Age tragedy haunts a modern woman's love life. So to shape you into the right attitude for the haughty high hats and floozy flappers of Al Capone's Chicago, let's recommence our elocution lessons with some new 1920s vocabulary, dears...

~*~  UPSTAGE  ~*~

Meaning: Snobby, arrogant.

"Everything jake? Wanna come back inside?"
"Aw, those women are so upstage, I'll never live down this run in my stocking."