CHATOUILLEUR (familiar), _man on ’Change who by divers contrivances entices the public into buying shares_, a “buttoner;” (thieves’) _a thief who tickles a person’s sides as if in play, and meanwhile picks his pockets_. CHATTE, _f._ (popular), _five-franc piece_. CHAUD, _adj. and m._ (popular), _cunning_; _greedy_; _wide awake_, or “fly;” _high-priced_. Il l’a ----, _he is wide awake about his own interests_. Etre ----, _to look with watchful eye_. (Familiar) Un ----, _an enthusiast_; _energetic man_. Il fera ----, _never_, “when the devil is blind.” Quand vous me reverrez il fera ----, _you will never see me again_. Etre ---- de la pince, _to be fond of women, to be a_ “beard-splitter.” (Artists’) Faire ----, _to employ very warm tints after the style of Rembrandt and all other colourists_. (Popular and thieves’) Chaud! _quick! on!_ Chaud, chaud! pour le mangeur, il faut le désosser. --=E. SUE.= CHAUDRON, _m._ (familiar), _bad piano_. Taper sur le ----, _to play on the piano_. CHAUDRONNER (popular), _to buy secondhand articles and sell them as new_. CHAUDRONNIER, _m._ (popular), _secondhand-clothes man_; (military) _cuirassier_, an allusion to his breastplate. CHAUFAILLON (popular), _stoker_. CHAUFFE-LA-COUCHE (familiar), _man who loves well his comfort_; _henpecked husband_, or “stangey.” CHAUFFER (popular), le four, _to drink heavily_, “to guzzle.” See RINCER. (Familiar) Chauffer un artiste, une pièce, _to applaud so as to excite the enthusiasm of an audience_; ---- une affaire, _to push briskly an undertaking_; ---- une place, _to be canvassing for a post_. Ça va chauffer, _there will be a hot fight_. Chauffer des enchères, _to encourage bidding at an auction_. CHAUFFEUR, _m._ (popular), _man who instills life into conversation or in a company_; _formerly, under the Directoire, one of a gang of brigands who extorted money from people by burning the feet of the victims_. CHAUMIR (thieves’), _to lose_. CHAUSSETTE (thieves’), _ring fastened as a distinctive badge to the leg of a convict who has been chained up for any length of time to another convict, a punishment termed_ “double chaîne.” CHAUSSETTES, _f. pl._ (military), _gloves_; ---- russes, _wrapper for the feet made of pieces of cloth_; (popular) ---- de deux paroisses, _odd socks_. CHAUSSON, _m._ (popular), _old prostitute_. Putain comme ----, _regular whore_. (Ballet girls’) Faire son ----, _to put on and arrange one’s pumps_. “Laissez-moi donc, je suis en retard. J’ai encore mon mastic et mon chausson à faire.” Autrement, pour ceux qui ne sont pas de la boutique, “il me reste encore à m’habiller, à me chausser et à me faire ma tête.”--=MAHALIN.= CHAUSSONNER (popular), _to kick_. CHAUVINISTE, _m._, synonymous of “chauvin,” _one with narrow-minded, exaggerated sentiments of patriotism_, a “Jingo.”