FRESH SLANG.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3061, 19 April 1881, Page 4

FRESH SLANG.

[ST. LOUIS aPECTATOB.] Quite a lot of new slang has been opened up for the full trade. This is nearly altogether family slang for the use of ladies, and if they wish to be abreast of the times they will take out their pencils and tablets and note down the specimens. " Catouche" ia a very new word, and means nice, sweet, pleasant. Coffee, for instance, may be catouche ; so may Jon Henry or Eliza Jane. "When a girl is ' " flick," she is knowing ; when she is " fenzy," she is quite the reverse of knowing. If you wish to convey to your heart's idol the idea that you adore her transcendent beauty, just tell her she is "oppressive." "A Johnny boy" is a new variety of the genus homo who knows how to dance like an angel —supposing that angels would so far forget themselves as to dance—who wears good clothes, and is an idiot in every other respect. The feminine equivalent of the "Johnny boy" is generally called " Evangeline." If you disapprove of a place or a person or a party, you may either refer to it as a " snide," " gummy, or toppy." Excessive admiration wrecks itself upon expression in such glossesas "balmy," "harmonious,"gulitive." " G-ulitive seems to mean a great many things. It is a sort of non-commital word, which can be used to fill up a sentence or express a doubtful opinion.