BROQUILLAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _theft which consists in substituting paste diamonds for the genuine article which a jeweller displays for the supposed purchaser’s inspection_. BROQUILLE, _f._ (theatrical), _nothing_. Used in the expression, Ne pas dire une ----, _not to know a single word of one’s part_; (thieves’) _a ring_, or “fawney;” _a minute_. BROQUILLEUR, _m._, BROQUILLEUSE, _f._ (thieves’), _thief who robs jewellers by substituting paste diamonds for the genuine which are shown to him as to a bonâ-fide purchaser_. BROSSE (popular), _no_; _nothing_; ---- pour lui! _he shan’t have any!_ BROSSER (familiar), se ---- le ventre, _to go without food, and, in a figurative sense, to be compelled to do without something_. BROSSEUR, _m._ (artists’), _one who paints numerous pictures of very large dimensions_. Rubens was a “brosseur;” (military) _flatterer_, _one who_ “sucks up.” BROUCE, _f._ (popular), _thrashing_, “whopping.” BROUF, _m._ (codfishers’), _wind blowing from the main_. BROUILLARD, _m._ (popular), chasser le ----, _to have a morning drop of spirits_, “dewdrop.” Etre dans le ----, _to be_ “fuddled,” _or tipsy_. Faire du ----, _to smoke_, “to blow a cloud.” BROUILLE, _f._, _series of pettifogging contrivances which a lawyer brings into play to squeeze as much profit as he can out of a law affair_. BROUILLÉ, _adj._ (familiar), avec la monnaie, _penniless_, “hard up;” ---- avec sa blanchisseuse, _with linen not altogether of a snow-white appearance_; ---- avec l’orthographe, _a bad speller_. BROUSSAILLES, _f. pl._ (popular), être dans les ----, _to be tipsy_, “obfuscated.” See POMPETTE. BROUTA, _m._ (Saint-Cyr school), _speech_. From the name of a professor who was a good elocutionist. BROUTE, _f._ (popular), _bread_, “tommy.” BROUTER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.” The expression is used by Villon, and is scarcely slang. Item, à Jean Raguyer, je donne ... Tous les jours une talemouze (_cake_), Pour brouter et fourrer sa mouse. BROUTEUR SOMBRE, _m._ (popular), _desponding, melancholy man_, “croaker.” BROYEUR DE NOIR EN CHAMBRE (familiar), _literary man who writes on melancholy themes_. BRUANT (Breton), _cock_; _egg_. BRUANTEZ (Breton), _hen_. BRUGE, _m._ (thieves’), _locksmith_. BRUGERIE, _f._, _locksmith’s shop_. BRÛLAGE, _m._ (familiar), _the act of being ruined_, “going to smash.” BRÛLANT, _m._ (thieves’), _fire_; _hearth_.