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
CHIER (popular), _coarse word_; ---- dans la vanette, _to be too free
and easy_; ---- de petites crottes, _to earn little money_; _to live
in poverty_; ---- des carottes, _to be costive_; ---- des chasses,
_to weep_, “to nap a bib;” ---- du poivre, _to fail in keeping one’s
promise_; _to abscond_; _to vanish when one’s services or help are most
needed_; ---- sur l’œil, _to laugh at one_; ---- sur, _to show great
contempt for_; _to abandon_. Ne pas ---- de grosses crottes, _to have
had a bad dinner, or no dinner at all_. Vous me faites ----, _you bore
me_. Un gueuleton à ---- partout, _a grand feast_. Une mine à ----
dessus, _a repulsive countenance_. (Printers’) Chier dans le cassetin
aux apostrophes, _to cease to be a printer_.
CHIEUR, _m._ (popular), d’encre, _clerk_, or “quill-driver.”
CHIFFARDE, _f._ (thieves’), _summons_; _pipe_.
CHIFFE, _f._ (popular), _rag-picking_; _tongue_, “red rag.”
CHIFFERLINDE, _f._ (popular), boire une ----, _to drink a dram of
spirits_.
CHIFFERTON, _m._ (popular), _rag-picker_, “bone-grubber,” or
“tot-picker.”
CHIFFON, _m._ (popular), _handkerchief_, “snottinger;” ---- rouge,
_tongue_, “red rag.” Balancer le ---- rouge, _to talk_, “to wag the red
rag.”
CHIFFONNAGE, _m._ (popular), _plunder of a rag-picker_.
CHIFFONNIER, _m._ (thieves’), _pickpocket who devotes his attention to
handkerchiefs_, “stook-hauler;” _man of disorderly habits_. (Literary).
Chiffonnier de la double colline, _bad poet_.
CHIFFORNION, _m._ (popular), _silk handkerchief, or silk_ “wipe.”
CHIFFORTIN, _m._ (popular), _rag-picker_, “bone-grubber,” or
“tot-picker.”
CHIGNARD, _m._ (popular), _inveterate grumbler_, “rusty guts.”
CHIGNER (popular), _to weep_, “to nap a bib.”
CHIMIQUE, _f._ (popular), _lucifer match_.
CHINAGE. See CHINE. Vol au ----, _selling plated trinkets for the
genuine article_.
CHINCILLA (popular), _grey_, or “pepper and salt” _hair_.
CHINE. Aller à la ----, _to ply the trade of_ chineur (which see).
CHINER (military), _to slander one_; _to ridicule one_; (popular) _to
work_; _to go in quest of good bargains_; _to buy furniture at sales
and resell it_; _to follow the pursuit of an old clothes man_; _to
hawk_; _to go about the country buying heads of hair from peasant
girls_.
CHINEUR, or MARGOULIN, _m._ (thieves’), _one who goes about the
country buying heads of hair of peasant girls_. (Military) Chineur,
_slanderer_; (popular) _rabbit-skin man_; _marine store dealer_;
_worker_; _hawker of cheap stuffs or silk handkerchiefs_.
En argot, chineur signifie travailleur, et vient du
verbe chiner.... Mais ce mot se spécialise pour désigner
particulièrement une race de travailleurs _sui generis_....
Elle campe en deux tribus à Paris. L’une habite le pâté de
maisons qui se hérisse entre la place Maubert et le petit
bras de la Seine, et notamment rue des Anglais. L’autre
niche en haut de Ménilmontant, et a donné autrefois son nom
à la rue de la Chine....
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