Les chineurs sont, d’ailleurs, des colons et non des Parisiens de naissance. Chaque génération vient ici chercher fortune, et s’en retourne ensuite au pays.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. CHINOIS, _m._ (popular), _an individual_, a “bloke,” a “cove;” _proprietor of coffee-house_; (familiar) _term of friendship_; (military) _term of contempt applied to civilians_, hence probably the expression “pékin,” _civilian_. CHINOISERIE, _f._ (familiar), _quaint joke_; _intricate and quaint procedure or contrivance_. CHIPE, _f._ (popular), _prigging_. From chiper, _to purloin_. CHIPETTE, _f._ (popular), _trifle_; _nothing_; _Lesbian woman, that is, one with unnatural passions_. CHIPIE, _f._ (familiar). Literally _girl or woman with a testy temper_, a “brim.” Faire sa ----, _to put on an air of supreme disdain or disgust_. CHIPOTEUSE, _f._ (popular), _capricious woman_. CHIQUANDAR. See CHICARD. CHIQUE. See CHIC. CHIQUE, _f._ Properly _quid of tobacco_. (Popular) Avoir sa ----, _to be in a bad humour_, “to be crusty,” or “cranky.” Avoir une ----, _to be drunk_, or “screwed.” See POMPETTE. Ça te coupe la ----, _that’s disappointing for you, that_ “cuts you up.” Coller sa ----, _to bend one’s head_. Couper la ---- à quinze pas, _to stink_. Poser sa ----, _to die_; _to be still_. Pose ta ---- et fais le mort! _be still!_ _shut up!_ _hold your row!_ (Thieves’) Chique, _church_. CHIQUÉ (artists’), _smartly executed_. Also _said of artistic work done quickly without previously studying nature_. (Popular) Bien ----, _well dressed_. CHIQUEMENT, _with_ chic (which see). CHIQUER (familiar), _to do anything in a superior manner_; _to do artistic work with more brilliancy than accuracy_; (popular) _to thrash_, “to wallop,” see VOIE; _to eat_, “to grub,” see MASTIQUER. Se ----, _to fight_, “to drop into one another.” CHIQUER CONTRE or BATTRE À NIORT (thieves’), _to deny one’s guilt_. CHIQUEUR, _m._ (popular), _glutton_, “stodger;” (artists’) _an artist who paints with smartness, or one who draws or paints without studying nature_. CHIRURGIEN, _m._ (popular), en vieux, _cobbler_. CHNIC. See CHENIQUE. CHOCAILLON, _m._ (popular), _female rag-picker_; _female drunkard_, or “lushington.” CHOCNOSO, CHOCNOSOF, CHOCNOSOGUE, KOSCNOFF, _excellent_, _remarkable_, _brilliant_, “crushing,” “nobby,” “tip-top,” “fizzing.” CHOCOTTE, _f._ (rag-pickers’), _marrow bone_; (thieves’) _tooth_. CHOLÉRA, _m._ (popular), _zinc or zinc-worker_; _bad meat_. CHOLET, _m._ (popular), _white bread of superior quality_. CHOLETTE, _f._ (thieves’), _half a litre_. Double ----, _a litre_. CHOPER (popular), _to steal_, “to prig.” See GRINCHIR. Old word choper, _to touch anything_, _to make it fall_. Se laisser ----, _to allow oneself to be caught_, _to be_ “nabbed.” CHOPIN, _m._ (thieves’), _theft_; _stolen object_; _blow_. Faire un ----, _to commit a theft_.