BOURGEOISADE, _f._, _anything, whether it be deed or thought, which savours of the bourgeois’ ways_; _a vulgar platitude_. The bourgeois, in the disparaging sense of the term of course, is a man of a singularly matter-of-fact, selfish disposition, and one incapable of being moved by higher motives than those of personal interest. His doings, his mode of life, all his surroundings bear the stamp of an unrefined idiosyncrasy. Though a staunch Conservative at heart, he is fond of indulging in a timid, mild opposition to Government, yet he even goes so far sometimes as to send to Parliament men whose views are at variance with his own, merely to give himself the pleasure of “teaching a lesson” to the “powers that be.” A man of Voltairian tendencies, yet he allows his wife and daughters to approach the perilous secrecy and the allurements of the confessional. When he happens to be a Republican, he rants furiously about equality, yet he protests that it is a shocking state of affairs which permits of his only son and spoilt child being made to serve in the ranks by the side of the workman or clodhopper. By no means a fire-eater, he is withal a bloodthirsty mortal and a loud-tongued Chauvinist, but as he has the greatest respect for the integrity of his person, and entertains a perfect horror of blows, he likes to see others carry out for him his pugnacious aspirations in a practical way. BOURGEOISE, _f._ (popular), _the mistress of a house or establishment_. Ma ----, _my wife_, “my old woman.” BOURGERON, _m._ (popular), _small glass of brandy_; (soldiers’) _a civilian_. Properly _a kind of short smock-frock_. BOURGUIGNON (popular), _the sun_. BOURLINGUE, _m._ (popular), _dismissal_, “the sack.” BOURLINGUER, _to dismiss_; _to get on with difficulty in life_. From a naval term. BOURLINGUEUR, _m._ (popular), _master_, “boss;” _foreman_. BOURRASQUE, _f._ (thieves’), _raid by the police_. BOURREAU DES CRÂNES, _m._ (military), _bully_, _fire-eater_. BOURRE-BOYAUX, _m._ (popular), _eating-house_, “grubbing crib.” BOURRE-COQUINS, _m. pl._ (popular), _beans_. Beans form the staple food of convicts. BOURRE-DE-SOIE, _f._ (cads’), _kept girl_, “poll.” BOURRÉE, _f._ (popular), _hustling_, “hunch.” BOURRER (familiar), en ---- une, _to smoke a pipe_, “to blow a cloud.” BOURREUR, _m._ (thieves’), de pègres, _penal code_; (printers’) ---- de lignes, _compositor of the body part of a composition_, a task generally entrusted to unskilled compositors, unable to deal with more intricate work. BOURRICHE, _f._ (popular), _blockhead_, “cabbage-head.” Properly _hamper_. BOURRICHON, _m._ (popular), _head_. See TRONCHE. Se monter, or se charpenter le ----, _to entertain strong illusions_, _to be too sanguine_. BOURRICOT (popular), c’est ----, _that comes to the same thing_; _it is all the same to me_. BOURRIER, _m._ (popular), _dirt_, _dung_.