Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new ParisBarrère, Albert
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Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris
Barrère, Albert
French language -- Dictionaries -- English; French language -- Slang -- Dictionaries
BOUTIQUE, _f._, _used disparagingly to denote one’s employer’s office_;
_newspaper offices_; _disorderly house of business_; _clique_. Esprit
de ----, _synonymous of esprit de corps, but used disparagingly_.
Etre de la ----, _to be one of, to belong to a political clique or
administration of any description_. Montrer toute sa ----, _is said
of a girl or woman who accidentally or otherwise exposes her person_.
Parler ----, _to talk shop_.
BOUTIQUER (popular), _to do anything with reluctance_; _to do it badly_.
BOUTIQUIER, _m._ (familiar), _narrow-minded or mean man_. Literally
_shopkeeper_.
BOUTOGUE, _f._ (thieves’), _shop_, or “chovey.”
BOUTON, _m._ (thieves’), _master key_; (popular) _twenty-franc piece_;
---- de guêtre, _five-franc gold-piece_; ---- de pieu, _bug_, or
“German duck.”
BOUTONNER (familiar), _to touch with the foil_; _to annoy, to bore_.
BOUTURE, _f._ (popular), de putain, low, insulting epithet, which may
be rendered by the equally low one, _son of a bitch_. Bouture, _slip of
a plant_.
BOXON, _m._ (popular), _brothel_, or “nanny-shop.”
BOYAU, _m._ (popular), rouge, _hard drinker_, or “rare lapper.”
BOYE, _m._ (thieves’), _warder_, or “bloke;” _convict who performs the
functions of executioner at the convict settlements of Cayenne or New
Caledonia_.
BRAC, _m._ (thieves’), _name_, “monniker,” or “monarch.”
BRACONNER (gamesters’), _to cheat_, or “to bite.” Properly _to poach_.
BRADER (popular), _to sell articles dirt cheap_.
BRAILLANDE, BRAILLARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _drawers_. From the old word
braies, _breeches_.
BRAILLARD, _m._ (popular), _street singer_, or “street pitcher.”
According to the _Slang Dictionary_, the latter term applies to negro
minstrels, ballad-singers, long-song men, men “working a board” on
which has been painted various exciting scenes in some terrible drama,
&c.
BRAISE, _f._ (popular), _money_, “loaver.” See QUIBUS.
J’ai pas d’braise pour me fend’ d’un litre,
Pas même d’un meulé cass’ à cinq.
=RICHEPIN.=
BRAISER (popular), _to pay_, “to dub.”
BRAISEUR (popular), _man who is very free with his money_.
BRANCARD (popular), _superannuated gay woman_.
BRANCARDS, _m. pl._ (popular), _hands_, or “flappers;” _legs_, or
“pins;” ---- de laine, _weak or lame legs_.
Un poseur qui veut me la faire à la redresse, que ces deux
flûtes repêchées par vous dans la lance du puits n’avaient
jamais porté une femme, je me connais en brancards de
dames, c’est pas ça du tout.--=MACÉ=, _Mon Premier Crime_.
BRANCHE, _f._ (popular), _friend_, “mate.” Ma vieille ----, _old
fellow!_ “old cock!” (Familiar) Avoir de la ----, _to have elegance_,
“dash.”
BRANCHER (thieves’ and cads’), _to lodge_, “to perch,” or “roost.”
BRANDILLANTE, BRANDILLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _bell_, or “ringer.”
BRANLANTE, _f._ (popular), _watch_, or “ticker.”
BRANLANTES, _f. pl._ (popular), _old men’s teeth_.
BRANQUE, _m._ (thieves’), _donkey_, “moke.”
BRAS, BRASSE, _adj._ (thieves’), _large_. From brasse, _a fathom_.
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