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
CALER (popular), _to do_; _to do nothing_; _to be out of work_, or “out
of collar;” _to strike work_; ---- l’école, _to play the truant_. Se
----, _to eat_. Se ---- les amygdales, _to eat_, “to grub.” (Thieves’)
Caler des boulins aux lourdes, _to bore holes in doors_.
CALETER (popular), _to decamp_, “to hook it.” See PATATROT.
CALEUR (popular), _lazy workman_, or “shicer;” _man out of work_;
_butler_; _waiter_ (from the German kellner).
CALFATER (sailors’), se ---- le bec, _to eat_. Literally _to caulk_.
CALIBORGNE. See CALORGNE.
CALICOT, _m._ (familiar), _draper’s assistant_, or “counter jumper.”
CALICOTE, _sweetheart_, or “flame,” _of a_ “knight of the yard.”
CALIFORNIEN (popular), _rich_, “worth a lot of tin.” See MONACOS.
CÂLIN, _m._, _small tin fountain which the retailers of coco carry on
their backs_. Coco is a cooling draught made of liquorice, lemon, and
water.
CALINO, _m._ (familiar), _ninny_; _one capable of the most enormous_
“bulls.”
CALINOTADE, _f._, _sayings of a_ calino (which see).
CALINTTES, _f._ (popular), _breeches_, or “hams,” or “sit-upons.”
CALLOT, _m._ (thieves’), _scurvy_.
CALLOTS, _m. pl._ (old cant), _variety of tramps_.
Les callots sont ceux qui sont teigneux véritables ou
contrefaits; les uns et les autres truchent tant aux
entiffes que dans les vergnes.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._
CALME ET INODORE (familiar), être ----, _to assume a decorous
appearance_. Soyez ----, _behave yourself with decorum_; _do not be
flurried_.
CALOMBE. See CABANDE.
CALOQUET, _m._ (thieves’), _hat_; _crown_. See TUBARD.
CALORGNE, _adj._ (popular), _one-eyed_, “boss-eyed,” or “seven-sided.”
CALOT, _m._ (thieves’), _thimble_; _walnut shell_; _eye_. Properly
_large marble_. Boiter des calots, _to squint_. Reluquer des calots,
_to gaze_, “to stag.”
J’ai un chouett’ moure,
La bouch’ plus p’tit’ que les calots.
=RICHEPIN.=
Calot, _clothier’s shopman_, or “counter-jumper;” _over-particular,
troublesome customer_.
CALOTIN, _m._ (familiar), _priest_; _one of the Clerical party_.
CALOTTE, _f._ (familiar), _clergy_. Le régiment de la ----, _the
company of the Jesuits_.
CALOTTÉE, _f._ (rodfishers’), _worm-box_.
CALVIGNE, or CLAVIGNE, _f._ (thieves’), _vine_.
CALVIN, or CLAVIN, _m._ (thieves’), _grapes_.
CALYPSO, _f._ (popular), faire sa ----, _to show off, to pose_.
CAM, _f._ (thieves’), lampagne de ----, _country_, or “drum.”
CAMARADE, _m._ (popular), de pionce, _bed-fellow_; (military)
_regimental hair-dresser_. (Familiar) Bon petit ---- _is said
ironically of a colleague who does one an ill turn, or slanders one_.
CAMARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _death_. Baiser la ----, _to die_. See PIPE.
CAMARDER (thieves’), _to die_.
CAMARLUCHE, _m._ (popular), _comrade_, “mate.”
CAMARO, _m._ (popular), _comrade_, or “mate.”
CAMBOLER (popular), _to fall down_.
CAMBOUIS, _m._ (military), _army service corps_. Properly _cart grease_.
CAMBRIAU, CAMBRIEUX, _m._ (popular), _hat_, or “tile.” See TUBARD.
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