Word: argot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army Argot...
...Hobo Argot...
Evidently Max Feckler (TIME, July 15) is a little confused in his own argot or lingo. First, he refers to the trainride-stealing American bum, and then refers to him as a hobo. There is no connection whatsoever between a bum and a hobo...
...Argot...
...wants to ride the rods or who does? The motorcar marked the passing of the trainride-stealing American bum, with his curious lingo. That there have never been a dozen masters in this profession is proved by the confusion of terms. To the next generation, the argot of the American hobo will be as incomprehensible as that of Villon's thieves, because apparently there is no one capable of setting them down now. Why doesn't TIME, for a time, open its columns to authoritative bum's language, so that the poets and novelists of future days...