BRIFFE, _f._ (popular), _food_, “belly timber;” _bread_, “tommy.” Passer à ----, _to eat_, “to grub.” N’importe où nous nous empatons D’arlequins, d’briffe et d’rogatons. =RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_. BRIFFER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.” BRIGADIER, _m._ (popular), _baker’s foreman_. BRIGAND, _m._ (popular), _term of friendliness_. Vieux ----, _you old scamp!_ BRIGANT, BRIGEANT, _m._ (thieves’), _hair_, or “strommel.” BRIGANTE or BRINGEANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _wig_, or “periwinkle.” BRIGEANTS or BRINGEANTS, _m. pl._ (thieves’), _hair_, “thatch.” Termed also “tifs, douilles, douillards.” BRIGETON, BRICHETON (popular), _bread_, “tommy.” BRIG-FOURRE, _m._ (military), _brigadier fourrier_. BRIGNOLET, _m._ (popular), _bread_, “tommy.” BRILLER (thieves’), _to light_. BRIMADE, _f._ (military), _euphemism for bullying_; _practical and often cruel jokes perpetrated at the military school of Saint-Cyr at the expense of the newly joined_, termed “melons” (“snookers” at the R. M. Academy), such as tossing one in a blanket, together with boots, spurs, and brushes, or trying him by a mock court-martial for some supposed offence. An illustration with a vengeance of such practical joking occurred some years ago at an English garrison town. Some young officers packed up a colleague’s traps, without leaving in the rooms a particle of property, nailed the boxes to the floor, and laid a he-goat in the bed. On the victim’s arrival they left him no time to give vent to his indignant feelings, for they cast him into a fisherman’s net and dragged him downstairs, with the result that the unfortunate officer barely escaped with his life. BRIMER, _to indulge in_ brimades (which see). BRINDE, _f._ (popular), _tall, lanky woman_; _landlord of a wine shop_. BRINDEZINGUE, _m._ (thieves’), _tin case of very small diameter containing implements, such as a fine steel saw or a watch-spring, which they secrete in a peculiar manner_. Says Delvau:-- Comment arrivent-ils à soustraire cet instrument de délivrance aux investigations les plus minutieuses des geôliers? C’est ce qu’il faut demander à M. le docteur Ambroise Tardieu qui a fait une étude spéciale des maladies de la gaîne naturelle de cet étui. (Mountebanks’) Etre en ----, _to be ruined_, _a bankrupt_, “cracked up,” or “gone to smash.” BRINDEZINGUES, _m. pl._ (popular), être dans les ----, _to be intoxicated_. From an old word brinde, _toast_. BRINGUE, _m._ (popular), _bread_, or “soft tommy.” Mettre en ----, _to smash up_. BRIO, _m._ (familiar). Properly a _musical term_. Figuratively, Parler, écrire avec ----, _to speak or write with spirit, in dashing style_. BRIOCHES, _f._ _pl._ (popular). Literally _gross mistake_. Figuratively, Faire des ----, _to lead a disorderly life_. BRIOLET, _m._ (popular), _thin, sour wine_, that is, “vin de Brie.” BRIQUEMANN, BRIQUEMON, _m._ (military), _cavalry sword_. BRIQUEMON, _m._ (thieves’), _tinder box_.