CHICARDER, _to dance the Chicard step_. See CHICARD. CHIC ET CONTRE, _warning which mountebanks address to one another_. CHICHE! (popular), _an exclamation expressive of defiance_. CHICKSTRAC, _m._ (military), _refuse_, _dung_, _excrement_. Corvée de ----, _fatigue duty for sweeping away the refuse, and especially for emptying cesspools_. CHICMANN, _m._ (popular), _tailor_. A great many tailors in Paris bear Germanic names; hence the termination of the word. CHICORÉE, _f._ (popular), c’est fort de ----, _it is really too bad!_ Ficher de la ----, _to reprimand_, “to give a wigging.” Faire sa ----, _is said of a person with affected or_ “high-falutin” _airs_. Ne fais donc pas ta ----, _don’t give yourself such airs_, “come off the tall grass,” as the Americans have it. CHIÉ, _adj._ (popular), tout ----, “as like as two peas.” CHIE-DANS-L’EAU, _m._ (military), _sailor_. CHIEN, _m. and adj._ (popular), noyé, _sugar soaked in coffee_. (Journalists’) Un ---- perdu, _short newspaper paragraph_. (Schoolboys’) Un ---- de cour, _school usher_, or “bum brusher.” (Military) Un ---- de compagnie, _a sergeant major_. Un ---- de régiment, _adjutant_. (Familiar and popular) Le ---- du commissaire, _police magistrate’s secretary_. The commissaire is a police functionary and petty magistrate. He examines privately cases brought before him, sends prisoners for trial, or dismisses them at once, settles then and there disputes between coachmen and their fares, sometimes between husbands and wives, makes perquisitions. He possesses to a certain extent discretionary powers. Avoir du ----, _to possess dash, go_, “gameness.” Il faut avoir du ---- dans le ventre pour résister, _one must have wonderful staying powers to resist_. Avoir un ---- pour un homme, _to be infatuated with a man_. Faire le ----, _is said of a servant who follows with a basket in the wake of her mistress going to market_. Rester en ---- de faience, _to remain immovable, like a block_. Se regarder en ---- de faience, _to look at one another without uttering a word_. Piquer un ----, _to take a nap_. Dormir en ---- de fusil, _to sleep with the body doubled up_. Une coiffure à la ----, _mode of wearing the hair loose on the forehead_. (Military) Un officier ----, _a martinet_. CHIENDENT, _m._, arracher le ----. See ARRACHER.