CERF-VOLANT, _m._ (thieves’), _female thief who strips children at play in the public gardens or parks_. A play on the words “cerf-volant,” _kite_, and “voler,” _to steal_. CERISE, _f._ (popular), _mason of the suburbs_. CERISES, _f. pl._ (military), monter en marchand de ----, _to ride badly, with toes and elbows out, and all of a heap, like a man with a basket on his arm_. CERISIER, _m._ (popular), _sorry horse_. An allusion to the name given to small horses which used to carry cherries to market. CERNEAU, _m._ (literary), _young girl_. Properly _fresh walnut_. CERTIFICATS, _m. pl._ (military), de bêtise, _long-service stripes_. C’EST (printers’), à cause des mouches, _sneering reply_. Eh! dis donc, compagnon, pourquoi n’es-tu pas venu à la boîte ce matin? L’autre répond par ce coq-à-l’âne: C’est à cause des mouches.--=BOUTMY.= CET (popular), aut’ chien, _that feller!_ CHABANNAIS, _m._ (popular), _noise_; _row_; _thrashing_. Ficher un ----, _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE. CHABROL, _m._ (popular), _mixture of broth and wine_. CHACAL, _m._ (military), _Zouave_. CHAFFOURER (popular), se ----, _to claw one another_. CHAFRIOLER (popular), se ---- à quelque chose, _to find pleasure in something_. CHAHUT, _m._ (familiar and popular), _eccentric dance, not in favour in respectable society, and in which the dancers’ toes are as often on a level with the faces of their partners as on the ground_; _uproar_, “shindy,” _general quarrel_. Faire du ----, _to make a noise, a disturbance_. CHAHUTER (familiar and popular), _to dance the_ chahut (which see); _to upset_; _to shake_; _to rock about_. Nous avons été rudement chahutés, _we were dreadfully jolted_. Ne chahute donc pas comme ça, _keep still, don’t fidget so_. CHAHUTEUR, _m._ (popular), _noisy, restless fellow_; _one who dances the_ chahut (which see). CHAHUTEUSE, _f._ (popular), _habituée of low dancing-saloons_. Also _a girl leading a noisy, fast life_. CHAILLOT (popular), à ----! _go to the deuce!_ à ---- les gêneurs! _to the deuce with bores!_ Ahuri de ----, blockhead. Envoyer à ----, _to get rid of one_; _to send one to the deuce_. CHAÎNE, _f._ (popular), d’oignons, _ten of cards_. CHAÎNISTE, _m._ (popular), _maker of gold chains_. CHAIR, _f._ (cads’), dure! _hit him hard! smash him!_ That is, Fais lui la chair dure! (Popular) Marchand de ---- humaine, _keeper of a brothel_. CHAISES, _f. pl._ (popular), manquer de ---- dans la salle à manger, _to be minus several teeth_. Noce de bâtons de ----, _grand jollification_, or “flare-up.” CHALEUR! (popular), _exclamation expressive of contempt, disbelief, disappointment, mock admiration, &c._ CHALOUPE, _f._ (popular), _woman with dress bulging out_. (Students’) La ---- orageuse, _a furious sort of cancan_. The cancan is an eccentric dance, and one of rather questionable character. See CHAHUT. CHALOUPER (students’), _to dance the above_. CHAMAILLER (popular), des dents, _to eat_.